Winter Night
Oluf Höst (Svaneke 1884 - Gudhjem 1966)
Lot-No. 381
Proceeds : 13.900 €
Oil/canvas. 61,5 x 74 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. OH. - Provenance: Acquired on Bornholm by the father's consignor around 1985; thence by descent into private collection Northrhine-Westphalia - Danish landscape and figure painter. H. studied 1906-15 at the Copenhagen academy and was pupil of G. Vermehren, J. Rohde and H. Giersing. He travelled Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. In 1929 he returned to his home island Bornholm and developed into one of the leading avantgardist Danish painters of the 20th cent. Among others he was awarded the Eckersberg and the Thorvaldsen medal. Mus.: Gudhjem (Oluf Höst Mus.), Copenhagen, Stockholm (Nat. Mus.), Aaarhus a. others. Lit.: Vollmer, Weilbach.
Oluf Höst: Winter Night
Oluf Höst (Svaneke 1884 - Gudhjem 1966)
Winter Night
Lot-No. 381
Proceeds : 13.900 €
Oil/canvas. 61,5 x 74 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. OH. - Provenance: Acquired on Bornholm by the father's consignor around 1985; thence by descent into private collection Northrhine-Westphalia - Danish landscape and figure painter. H. studied 1906-15 at the Copenhagen academy and was pupil of G. Vermehren, J. Rohde and H. Giersing. He travelled Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. In 1929 he returned to his home island Bornholm and developed into one of the leading avantgardist Danish painters of the 20th cent. Among others he was awarded the Eckersberg and the Thorvaldsen medal. Mus.: Gudhjem (Oluf Höst Mus.), Copenhagen, Stockholm (Nat. Mus.), Aaarhus a. others. Lit.: Vollmer, Weilbach.
