By the North Sea
Tom Hops (Hamburg 1906 - Hamburg 1976)
Lot-No. 119
Proceeds : 1.800 €
1945. Oil/cardboard. 46,5 x 61,5 cm. Lo. le. sign. and dat. Tom Hops 45. - Landscapist and painter of townscapes. H. had a commercial education and sailed the seas before turning to painting since 1928, mostly self-taught. He was very successul and received many honours, among them the Dürer prize of the town of Nuremberg in 1943, the Ernst Reuter prize in Berlin in 1959 and the Edwin Scharff prize in Hamburg in 1960. H. was the first Hamburg painter to be showcased in a New York gallery after the war in 1954. In 1974 he was made professor. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum a. others). Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Heydorn a. others.
Tom Hops: By the North Sea
Tom Hops (Hamburg 1906 - Hamburg 1976)
By the North Sea
Lot-No. 119
Proceeds : 1.800 €
1945. Oil/cardboard. 46,5 x 61,5 cm. Lo. le. sign. and dat. Tom Hops 45. - Landscapist and painter of townscapes. H. had a commercial education and sailed the seas before turning to painting since 1928, mostly self-taught. He was very successul and received many honours, among them the Dürer prize of the town of Nuremberg in 1943, the Ernst Reuter prize in Berlin in 1959 and the Edwin Scharff prize in Hamburg in 1960. H. was the first Hamburg painter to be showcased in a New York gallery after the war in 1954. In 1974 he was made professor. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum a. others). Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Heydorn a. others.
