Venice in Moonlight
Louis Douzette (Tribsees 1834 - Barth 1924)
Lot-No. 463
Oil/artist's board. 50 x 74,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. Louis Douzette. Small scratch. - Provenance: Private collection London; Sotheby's New Bond Street; at last private collection Rhineland - German landscape and marine painter. D. studied at the Berlin academy under H. Eschke. He travelled Sweden, among others to witness a solar eclipse. He specialized in moonlit landscapes. He was awarded gold medals in Berlin and Melbourne in 1886 and 1888. In 1896 he became professor in Berlin, in 1910 he was made honorary citizen of Barth. Mus.: Berlin, Breslau, Dresden, Baden-Baden, Rostock, Moscow, Prague, Sydney a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
Louis Douzette: Venice in Moonlight
Louis Douzette (Tribsees 1834 - Barth 1924)
Venice in Moonlight
Lot-No. 463
Oil/artist's board. 50 x 74,5 cm. Lo. ri. sign. Louis Douzette. Small scratch. - Provenance: Private collection London; Sotheby's New Bond Street; at last private collection Rhineland - German landscape and marine painter. D. studied at the Berlin academy under H. Eschke. He travelled Sweden, among others to witness a solar eclipse. He specialized in moonlit landscapes. He was awarded gold medals in Berlin and Melbourne in 1886 and 1888. In 1896 he became professor in Berlin, in 1910 he was made honorary citizen of Barth. Mus.: Berlin, Breslau, Dresden, Baden-Baden, Rostock, Moscow, Prague, Sydney a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
