Mills in the Moonlight
Louis Douzette (Tribsees 1834 - Berlin 1924)
Lot-No. 194
Proceeds : 5.900 €
Oil/wood, 18 x 24 cm, sign. lo. ri. L. Douzette. - Prov.: Private collection of Arthur J. Sulley; thence by descent. - Arthur J. Sulley was one of the most eminent art dealers of the decades around 1900. He opened the US market for European old master paintings, he died 1930. - North German Landscape a. marine painter, mainly of moonlit sceneries, studied at the Berlin academy under H. Eschke, trip to Sweden to study the midnight sun, 1886 a. 1888 gold medals in Berlin a. Melbourne, in 1896 he became professor in Berlin a. in 1910 honorary citizen. - Mus.: Berlin, Breslau, Dresden, Baden Baden, Rostock, Moskau, Prag, Sydney a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
Louis Douzette: Mills in the Moonlight
Louis Douzette (Tribsees 1834 - Berlin 1924)
Mills in the Moonlight
Lot-No. 194
Proceeds : 5.900 €
Oil/wood, 18 x 24 cm, sign. lo. ri. L. Douzette. - Prov.: Private collection of Arthur J. Sulley; thence by descent. - Arthur J. Sulley was one of the most eminent art dealers of the decades around 1900. He opened the US market for European old master paintings, he died 1930. - North German Landscape a. marine painter, mainly of moonlit sceneries, studied at the Berlin academy under H. Eschke, trip to Sweden to study the midnight sun, 1886 a. 1888 gold medals in Berlin a. Melbourne, in 1896 he became professor in Berlin a. in 1910 honorary citizen. - Mus.: Berlin, Breslau, Dresden, Baden Baden, Rostock, Moskau, Prag, Sydney a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit a. others.
