Lot 447: Returning from the Catch

Carl Becker Hameln 1862 - Blankenese 1926 Oil/canvas, 70 x 100 cm, lo. le. sign. Carl Becker,on the frame titled on label of gallery Commeter.- Marine painter, father of Claus B., worked in Düsseldorf a. Hamburg. B. was pupil of H. Leitner in Hamburg, thereafter he studied at the Düsseldorf academy under E. Dücker. He was co-founder of the Altonaer Künstlerverein. - Mus.: Hamburg (Hamburg-Mus., Altonaer Mus.), Bremerhaven (Deutsches Schiffahrtsmus.) a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Rump, Der Neue Rump a. others.