Lot 2044: Gehrts, Carl 1853 Hamburg - 1898 Endenich

Signed and dated lower left: Carl Gehrts Ddf No. III 1873. Oil on canvas. 51 x 62,5cm. Framed. Carl Gehrts initially studied in Weimar as a student of Gussow, later on as a student of Alb. Bauer, whom he followed to Düsseldorf. Henceforth his main point of interest was genre- and historian painting as well as illustration. The latter mostly being humouristic depictions from a fairy- and fableworld. From 1877 onward he regularly exhibitedin Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dresden, Hamburg and Munich, also recieving several awards, umongstothers in 1890 the 'Goldene Staatsmedaille' on the Dresden Aquarelle Exhibition.