At Sunset
Willy Stöwer (Wolgast 1864 - Berlin 1931)
Lot-No. 134
Proceeds : 1.500 €
Gouache, 40 x 50 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Willy Stöwer 08, lo. le. titled "Bei sinkender Sonne", framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Marine painter a. illustrator, worked among others on commission of the Cologna chocolate manufacturer Stollwerck a. emperor Wilhelm II who was one of the greatest admirers of the artist a. whom Stöwer accompanied on several cruises, his depiction of the sinking of the Titanic is still reproduced, in 1907 he was made professor. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker a. others.
Willy Stöwer: At Sunset
Willy Stöwer (Wolgast 1864 - Berlin 1931)
At Sunset
Lot-No. 134
Proceeds : 1.500 €
Gouache, 40 x 50 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Willy Stöwer 08, lo. le. titled "Bei sinkender Sonne", framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Marine painter a. illustrator, worked among others on commission of the Cologna chocolate manufacturer Stollwerck a. emperor Wilhelm II who was one of the greatest admirers of the artist a. whom Stöwer accompanied on several cruises, his depiction of the sinking of the Titanic is still reproduced, in 1907 he was made professor. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker a. others.