Alice Sommer, Summer Landscape (Elbe River with View of the Albert Bridge?). Probably 1930s/1940s. Alice Sommer1898 Dresden - 1982 Rotthalmünster Oil on canvas, completely laminated on wooden plate. Signed u.r. "ASommer". Framed in a historicizing bronze-coloured stucco moulding in Louis XV style. Partly with small holes at the corners, probably from the working process. Minimally soiled. Small retouchings in the upper part of the picture. Measures: 39.7 x 47 cm, overall 53.5 x 61.8 cm. Alice Sommer 1898 Dresden - 1982 Rotthalmünster 1917-20 Studies at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts, until October 1918 in Max Feldbauer's class, then with Margarete Junge in the fashion class. 1920 Change to the Academy of Arts, where Sommer studied again with Feldbauer, in winter 1920/21 as his individual student. Other instructors were Robert Sterl, Ludwig von Hoffmann, Otto Gussmann, Otto Hettner, and Oskar Kokoschka. In 1921-24 Sommer received an individual studio, as well as the honorary certificate of the Academy in 1922, 1923 and 1924. From 1924 active as a freelance artist and member of the "Economic Association of Fine Artists of Dresden". 1928 Marries Hans Morgenstern, violinist of the Dresdner Staatskapelle. Moves to Rosenstr. 18 in Radebeul, currently creating her last works. 1930 Birth of her son Christoph. 1945 Destruction of her parental home and thus of a large part of her work, drawings received in a studio in Ostrau.