Lot 551: Evening near Biarritz

Boehme Karl
Hamburg 1866 - München 1939
Evening near Biarritz
Oil/canvas, 89,5 x 109,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. Karl Boehme München, on the stretcher on label titled 'Abendstimmung bei Biarritz'. - German landscape a. marine painter, studied at the Karlsruhe academy as master student of G. Schönleber. Te travelled Rügen, Bornholm, Lofoten a. Lizzard. For an extended period he lived on Capri, thereafter in Munich, where he was awarded the Gold Medal of the town. - Mus.: Karlsruhe (Kunsthalle), Munich, Manheim, Triest. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Rump, Der Neue Rump a. others.