Alfred Teichmann "Spanish fishermen with their boats". Probably around 1950. Alfred Teichmann1903 Gersdorf/Sa. - 1980 Dresden Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Framed in a profiled wooden moulding with silver leaf metal overlay and grey painted fillet. WVZ Teichmann A1067. On his trip to Spain in the early 1930s Teichmann created several drawings and lithographs with similar scenes . Depicted are Spanish fishermen landing with their Llauts. These traditional fishing boats were particularly common in the Balearic Islands and Catalonia. We thank Dr. Jürgen Teichmann, Dresden, for his kind advice. Canvas re-stretched. Format reduced. Painting layer at the edges with slight craquelure. Two small missing parts with craquelure mi.right and mi.left. Shiny, brownish spots in the bow area of the left boat. White grounding penetrated on verso due to painting technique. Measures: 43.3 x 58 cm, cm. 52.4 x 67.1. Alfred Teichmann 1903 Gersdorf/Sa. - 1980 Dresden After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter Teichmann was 1922-23 at the Dresden School of Arts and Crafts, Decorative Painting, and 1926 at the Teaching Institute of the Berlin Museum of Arts and Crafts.From 1923 he travelled to Italy, Greece, Scandinavia and France. In 1929 he began studying art at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, graduating with honors in 1936. From 1934 he regularly visited the Curonian Spit, where he created numerous paintings, watercolours and drawings in Nidden, Purwin, Preil and Perwelk. There he met his wife Maria, who came from Memel. After his release from Soviet captivity in 1948, he lived and worked in Dresden again, but regularly visited Ahrenshoop on the Baltic Sea.