Karl Biese, "Grave on the moor" Close-up view of a megalithic grave made of huge erratic blocks with a wind-driven ditch in a wide heath landscape, colour litho, signed and dated "Karl Biese 1901" and signed by the "B.G. Teubner-Verlag" in the lower right-hand corner of the print, somewhat creased, yellowed and bleached, a few foxing spots, framed behind glass in an approx. 11 cm wide oak strip (bumped), fold approx. 72 x 102 cm. Artist info: also Carl Biese, also known as "Schnee-Biese" (snow piping) due to his preference for winter landscapes. Painter and lithographer (1863 Hamburg-Wandsbeck until 1926 Tübingen), 1878-82 apprenticeship as a painter, subsequently working as a theatre painter and pupil at the Hamburger Gewerbeschule, studied 1883-86 with a scholarship at the Akademie Karlsruhe under Theodor Poeck and Gustav Schönleber, 1886 gave up his studies due to financial hardship, 1886 master's examination in painting in Hamburg and self-employment as a decorative painter until 1892, 1892-96 again studied at the Akademie Karlsruhe under Carlos Grethe, Christian Ludwig Bokelmann, Leopold von Kalckreuth and master pupil of Gustav Schönleber, undertook study trips through Italy and Germany, from 1896 freelance work in Karlsruhe, moved to the Grötzingen painters' colony in 1899, worked in Karlsruhe from 1903, friendship with Hans Thoma, co-founder and at times chairman of the Karlsruhe Artists' Association, created series of collectible pictures for the Cologne chocolate producer Ludwig Stollwerck around 1904, from 1907 in St. Märgen in the Black Forest, 1909 in Hamburg-Blankenese, 1911 in Freudenstadt and from 1917 in Tübingen. Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", AKL, Dressler, Müller-Singer, Rump, Mülfarth and Wikipedia.