Submarine in the combat zone
Claus Bergen (Stuttgart 1885 - Lenggries 1964)
Lot-No. 537
Proceeds : 10.100 €
1942. Oil/canvas. 60 x 90 cm. Lo. ri. sign. and dat. Claus Bergen 1942. - Provenance: The painting was personally commissioned from the artist by the consignor's mother as a gift to his grandfather; thence by descent - German marine painter. B. studied at the Munich Academy under C. von Marr. He undertook study trips to England and the U.S., so he stayed several times in the fishing village of Polperro in Cornwall until the outbreak of the First World War. He was the only German marine painter who was able to travel on a submarine during the First World War. Good relations with the top echelons of the navy and air force ensured him excellent commissions time and again, but he also participated in the decoration of the German Museum in Munich. A retrospective at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven in 1982 honored his life's work. Mus.: Munich, Wuppertal, Nuremberg, London. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Jensen: Kiel und die See, Hormann/Kliem: C. B. - Marinemaler über vier Epochen.
Claus Bergen: Submarine in the combat zone
Claus Bergen (Stuttgart 1885 - Lenggries 1964)
Submarine in the combat zone
Lot-No. 537
Proceeds : 10.100 €
1942. Oil/canvas. 60 x 90 cm. Lo. ri. sign. and dat. Claus Bergen 1942. - Provenance: The painting was personally commissioned from the artist by the consignor's mother as a gift to his grandfather; thence by descent - German marine painter. B. studied at the Munich Academy under C. von Marr. He undertook study trips to England and the U.S., so he stayed several times in the fishing village of Polperro in Cornwall until the outbreak of the First World War. He was the only German marine painter who was able to travel on a submarine during the First World War. Good relations with the top echelons of the navy and air force ensured him excellent commissions time and again, but he also participated in the decoration of the German Museum in Munich. A retrospective at the German Maritime Museum in Bremerhaven in 1982 honored his life's work. Mus.: Munich, Wuppertal, Nuremberg, London. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Jensen: Kiel und die See, Hormann/Kliem: C. B. - Marinemaler über vier Epochen.
