Lot 106: Rural House under tall Trees

August Haake, Bremen 1889 - Bremen 1915
Rural House under tall Trees
Oil on cardboard, 71,5 x 50 cm, verso with title Haus unter hohen Bäumen. - German landscape painter. H. entered on a commercial career on his father's request but started taking drawing lessons in 1908. 1909-14 he studied at the Weimar Kunstschule, since 1912 as master student of its director F. Mackensen. H. painted time a. time again in the surroundings of Worpswede a. Fischerhude where he affiliated, together with other young artist, with O. Modersohn. - Lit.: D. Holz: Im Strom der Zeit, Lilienthal 2006.