Oil on canvas. Signed.

62 x 80 cm. Framed : 77 x 96 cm.

Heavy stucco frame, silver painted. A patch on the reverse at the bottom.

* Knauf, late Impressionist landscape painter, studied at the academy in Düsseldorf. From 1921 represented at exhibitions in Königsberg (East Prussia, from 1946 Kaliningrad) and Memel (from 1923 Klaipéda, Lithuania), from 1931 resident in Nidden (from 1923 Nida, Lithuania). An artists' colony had come together in Nidden, which also included Max Pechstein, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Lovis Corinth, works in the East Prussian State Museum in Lüneburg.

Provenance : * Partner auction Bergmann (the responsibility for legally compliant consignment and description lies with Auktionshaus Bergmann, Erlangen), South German private estate.