Alfred Teichmann "Hamburg harbor with the Blohm+Voss shipyard". 1968. Alfred Teichmann1903 Gersdorf/Sa. - 1980 Dresden Oil on canvas. Signed "A. Teichmann" and dated on the lower right. Framed in a profiled, silver-coloured grooved wooden moulding with a light visible border. WVZ Teichmann A1069. Blohm+Voss is a German shipyard with its headquarters in Hamburg-Steinwerder on the southern bank of the Norderelbe . It was founded in 1877 and is considered the last of the large shipyards in the port of Hamburg. The present oil painting is based on the slightly smaller watercolour (WVZ Teichmann B921) with the identical view. We thank Dr. Jürgen Teichmann, Dresden, for his kind advice. Small, professionally closed hole in canvas lower right as well as the canvas in the marginal areas with traces of pressure.At the upper margin and at the upper left corner the painting layer clearly rubbed. The painting layer is clearly rubbed at the upper margin and at the upper left corner, partly with small loosenings and missing parts. Small nail hole u.r. in the fold area. The frame partly somewhat bumped. Dimensions: 54,3 x 65,3 cm, cm. 63 x 74,5. Alfred Teichmann 1903 Gersdorf/Sa. - 1980 Dresden After an apprenticeship as a decorative painter Teichmann was 1922-23 at the Kunstgewerbeschule Dresden, Decorative Painting, and 1926 at the Unterrichtsanstalt des Kunstgewerbemuseums Berlin.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.