Lot 563: Winterly Village on Rügen

Beyer Tom, Münster i. W. 1907 - Stralsund 1981, Winterly Village on Rügen, Watercolour, 61 x 76 cm, lo. le. sign. Tom Beyer, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - German landscape painter. B. studied at the Werkkunstschule Münster as well as at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf. He travelled extensively, mainly to Scandinavia. He escaped the pressure of the Nazi regime by moving to Rügen; nonetheless his works were banned from exhibitions in 1937. One of his chief works is a fresco in the Stralsund town hall. - Mus.: Rostock, Stralsund. - Lit.: Saur, Vollmer.