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Lot 50: Portrait of a young Lady

Est: €2,500 EUR - €3,000 EUR
Auktionshaus StahlHamburg, GermanySeptember 26, 2015

Item Overview

Description

Eckmann, Otto Hamburg 1865 - Badenweiler 1902
Portrait of a young Lady
Oil/canvas, 63 x 42,5 cm, lo. le. sign. Eckmann, on the stretcher label of the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1893.
Große Berliner Kunstausstellung 1893.

Artist or Maker

Notes

German painter, graphic artist a. Art Nouveau designer. After attending the art schools in Hamburg a. Nuremberg since 1882 E. studied at the Munich academy under A. von Wagner. Since the mid 1890s however he turned his back on academic painted a. distinguishes himself as the leading exponent of a floral Art Nouveau. He worked in Munich for the magazines 'Jugend' a. 'Pan' but kept in touch with Hamburg through J. Brinckmann - director of the arts a. crafts museum - a. through the Scherrebek weaving school. In 1897 he moved to Berlin a. worked as teacher for ornamental graphics at the arts a. crafts museum; in 1989 he was co-founder of the Munich secession. He died prematurely of tuberculosis.

Auction Details

Old Master & Antiques, Modern Art & Jewellery

by
Auktionshaus Stahl
September 26, 2015, 11:00 AM CET

Graumannsweg 54, Hamburg, 22087, DE