Lot 606: View over the Alster in Hamburg

Jahns Maximilian
Hamburg 1887 - Hamburg 1957
View over the Alster in Hamburg
Ca. 1912, oil/canvas, 65,5 x 78 cm, lo. ri. sign. M. Jahns, on the stretcher titled 'Alsterufer'. - Hamburg landscape a. figure painter, studied 1907-13 at the Hamburg art school under M. von Beckerath a. J. Wohlers, travelled France, Denmark, Switzerland a. Italy, in 1919 he joined the Hamburgische Sezession, in 1937 one of his works was removed from the Hamburg Kunsthalle as 'degenerate'. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle u.a.). - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Rump, Der Neue Rump.