Workman with Shovel
Lesser Ury Birnbaum 1861 - Berlin 1931
Lot-No. 467
Before 1901, charcoal drawing, 54 x 39,5 cm, lo. le. sign. Lesser Ury as well as dedicated 'Toni Jaffa in Verehrung', matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - It's a study for the painting 'Herbstlandschaft' (autumn landscape). - Landscape a. figure painter, distinguished in depicting Berlin urban life in a colourful impressionism, studied at the Düsseldorf academy under J. J. H. Müller a in Brussels under J. F. Portaels, who recommended him to L. Bonnat, went to Paris to continue his studies under J. Lefèbvre, in 1887 he settled in Berlin where he established connections with W. Uhde a. M. Liebermann, the Michael Beer prize awarded him in 1890 allowed him to go to Italy, numerous exhibitions, among others at the Berlin secession in 1922 a. in the Berlin National Gallery in 1931. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat. Gall.), Görlitz, Graz. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Rosenbach 'L. U., das druckgraphische Werk', 2002.
Lesser Ury: Workman with Shovel
Lesser Ury Birnbaum 1861 - Berlin 1931
Workman with Shovel
Lot-No. 467
Before 1901, charcoal drawing, 54 x 39,5 cm, lo. le. sign. Lesser Ury as well as dedicated 'Toni Jaffa in Verehrung', matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - It's a study for the painting 'Herbstlandschaft' (autumn landscape). - Landscape a. figure painter, distinguished in depicting Berlin urban life in a colourful impressionism, studied at the Düsseldorf academy under J. J. H. Müller a in Brussels under J. F. Portaels, who recommended him to L. Bonnat, went to Paris to continue his studies under J. Lefèbvre, in 1887 he settled in Berlin where he established connections with W. Uhde a. M. Liebermann, the Michael Beer prize awarded him in 1890 allowed him to go to Italy, numerous exhibitions, among others at the Berlin secession in 1922 a. in the Berlin National Gallery in 1931. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat. Gall.), Görlitz, Graz. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Rosenbach 'L. U., das druckgraphische Werk', 2002.