Port of Hamburg
Kurt Löwengard (Hamburg 1895 - London 1940)
Lot-No. 244
Proceeds : 2.100 €
Watercolour, 29,5 x 44,5 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. Löwengard 32, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Hamburg painter, draughtsman adn graphic artist. L. was pupil of A. Siebelist before WW I. Since 1919 he studied at the Weimar Bauhaus under W. Klemm and L. Feininger. After travelling extensively he became member of the Hamburg secession, of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft and of the Altonaer Künstlerverein since 1923. L. was harrassed by the Nazis for a long time before in 1939 he emigrated to London. There he died devitalised only a few month later. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum), Schleswig (SHLM), Rendsburg (Jüdisches Museum) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, M. Bruhns: K. L. 1895-1940 a. others.
Kurt Löwengard: Port of Hamburg
Kurt Löwengard (Hamburg 1895 - London 1940)
Port of Hamburg
Lot-No. 244
Proceeds : 2.100 €
Watercolour, 29,5 x 44,5 cm, lo. le. sign. and dat. Löwengard 32, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Hamburg painter, draughtsman adn graphic artist. L. was pupil of A. Siebelist before WW I. Since 1919 he studied at the Weimar Bauhaus under W. Klemm and L. Feininger. After travelling extensively he became member of the Hamburg secession, of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft and of the Altonaer Künstlerverein since 1923. L. was harrassed by the Nazis for a long time before in 1939 he emigrated to London. There he died devitalised only a few month later. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum), Schleswig (SHLM), Rendsburg (Jüdisches Museum) a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, M. Bruhns: K. L. 1895-1940 a. others.
