Hans Greinke, Thuringian summer landscape with rye field. Probably 1930s. Hans Greinke1891 Berlin - 1960 Weimar Oil on cardboard. Signed u.li. "H. Greinke". Framed in a profiled golden wooden frame. O.Mi. tiny missing parts in the painting layer in the area of the sky. Rubbed all around in the marginal areas due to the frame, with partial loss of painting layer. Verso a spot with abrasion as well as paper residues from an earlier mounting. Dimensions: 47.4 x 59 cm, overall 56.5 x 68 cm. Hans Greinke 1891 Berlin - 1960 Weimar German landscape painter. Studied at the art school in Weimar. Pupil of Theodor Hagen, Max Thedy and Max Merker; afterwards at the academy in Munich with Thoma.

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