Lot 477: Scherrebek Wall Hanging - Two Owls

Otto Ubbelohde Marburg/Lahn 1867 - Goßfelden 1922 , Scherrebek Wall Hanging - Two Owls, Around 1899. Weaf, 100 x 64 cm, lo. le. Schleswig-Holstein flag. - Cf.: Dorothee Bieske: Scherrebek, Wandbehänge des Jugendstils, Flensburg 2003, fig. p. 130; E. Schlee: Scherrebeker Bildteppiche, Neumünster 1984, fig. p. 269 a. 181., German painter, graphic artist a. art nouveau designer. U. studied at the Weimar Kunstschule as well as at the Munich academy under G. von Hackl, W. von Diez u. L. von Löfftz since 1884. He was in contact with the painter's colonies Dachau a. Worpswede; in 1902 he joined the Willinghausen painter's colony,. He earned himself global fame with his illustrations of the Grimm fairy tales, published in 1909.