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1930s Signed Painting Otto Heinrich Engel Credited1935 ca.
1935 ca.
$2,978.48
£2,212.80
€2,500
CA$4,129.80
A$4,441.25
CHF 2,374.75
MX$53,560.24
NOK 30,030.29
SEK 27,361.46
DKK 19,054.15
About the Item
This beautiful oil painting on canvas depicts a poetic garden scene, probably a park or estate.
According to a detailed analysis of the period, style and extremely high quality of the brushwork, the painting can most likely be attributed to the great German artist Otto Heinrich Engel (1866 Erbach im Odenwald - 1949 Glücksburg).
The work shows a path or staircase leading upwards, flanked by a stone balustrade on the left and dense, beautiful vegetation.
In the centre, in the foreground on the left, is a stone pedestal or monument with a small sculpture on top.
The painting uses a technique of dense, visible brushstrokes, with a palette of autumnal or earthy colours dominated by dark greens, browns and ochre yellows.
The style suggests an Impressionist or Post-Impressionist approach, focusing on atmosphere and light rather than precise details.
Signed lower left
This artwork, never before on the market, comes from an important French private collection and is beautified by an impressive antique frame in gilded wood, in very good condition.
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Otto Heinrich Engel was born on 27 December 1866 in the small town of Erbach in the Odenwald region, which at the time belonged to the Grand Duchy of Hesse.
From 1868 to 1873, the family lived in Gelnhaar, where his father worked as a pastor. There, too, he wrote articles for various Christian-conservative newspapers until he was appointed editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Der Reichsbote in Berlin in 1873.
In Berlin, Engel first attended the Döbbelin boys' high school before transferring to the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in 1877.
He began his academic training as a painter in 1886, after passing the entrance examination for the newly founded Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, whose director since 1875 was Anton von Werner.
In 1890, he moved to Karlsruhe to attend the Grand Ducal Art School of Baden, where he took Caspar Ritter's painting course.
In the following years, he maintained friendly relations with his fellow students Robert Grabbert and Ernst Eitner from Hamburg, Wilhelm Schulz from Lüneburg, and Georg Burmester from Kiel.
In 1891, Engel moved to Munich to study at the Academy of Fine Arts, where his teacher Paul Hoecker had a significant influence on his further development as an artist.
In the 1820s, he remained faithful to his familiar motifs and learned painting techniques, closing himself off to new artistic movements.
He focused increasingly on portraiture and worked as a book illustrator.
To escape the economic situation and growing political instability in Berlin, he moved alone to Glücksburg in 1933.
Engel spent the next few years in isolation on the Flensburg Fjord, maintaining contact only with friends and colleagues, including Hans Holtorf from Friedrichstadt and Albert Johannsen from Husum.
Engel is considered one of the pioneers of modern avant-garde painting in Germany. In 1898, together with Walter Leistikow, Ludwig Dettmann, Oskar Frenzel, Curt Herrmann, Fritz Klimsch and Max Liebermann, he was one of the founding members of the Berlin Secession, which advocated a departure from academic painting. However, Engel's involvement in this movement for artistic emancipation was essentially limited to the early years, and he left the group in 1902, rejoining the Berlin Artists' Association.
Between 1901 and 1914, his annual summer stays on the island of Föhr in the North Sea, accompanied by prolific painting, were a distinctive feature of his work. On the advice of his long-time friend Hans Peter Feddersen, he stayed at the inn run by Grethjen Hayen in Alkersum.
The inn is now part of the Museum Kunst der Westküste (West Coast Art Museum) complex.
Through a direct and impasto application of paint, Engel was able to quickly capture the moods of a moment and document their fleeting nature using the medium of painting itself. To this day, Otto Heinrich Engel is considered the painter of the island of Föhr, its landscape and its people.
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Dimensions are frame included
- Attributed to:Otto Heinrich Engel (1866 - 1949, German)
- Creation Year:1935 ca.
- Dimensions:Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 22.45 in (57 cm)Depth: 1.58 in (4 cm)
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- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Roma, IT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2883217438582
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