Lot 196: Port of Stralsund

Tom Beyer Münster i. W. 1907 - Stralsund 1981 , Port of Stralsund, Oil/cardboard/masonite, 40 x 60 cm, lo. ri. sign. Tom Beyer., German landscape painter. B. studied at the Werkkunstschule Münster as well as at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf. He travelled extensively, mainly to Scandinavia. He escaped the pressure of the Nazi regime by moving to Rügen; nonetheless his works were banned from exhibitions in 1937. One of his chief works is a fresco in the Stralsund town hall.