Otto Gerlach, War Scene at the Edge of the Village. 2nd half of the 19th century. Otto Gerlach1862 Leipzig - 1908 Tehran. Watercolour painting over pencil, heightened with white on paper, completely mounted on cardboard. Monogrammed in lead "OG" u.r. Numbered in lead "4636" outside the image at the left margin. Cardboard browned and unevenly trimmed. Traces of abrasion at the margins. Dimensions: 32,5 x 49,5 cm. Otto Gerlach 1862 Leipzig - 1908 Teheran German painter, draughtsman and illustrator. Studied at the Royal Academy of Arts and Applied Arts Leipzig under Ludwig Nieper and from 1884 at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts Berlin under Anton von Werner and Otto Brausewetter. In 1889 he was commissioned by the "Illustrirten Zeitung" to work as a draughtsman at the Paris World Exhibition. Until 1891 in Paris, also commissions from "Le Monde illustré". 1898 visits the Adriatic coast and London with German journalists, 1906 at the Milan World's Fair. Frequently created illustrations of scenes from soldiers' lives and war events, and also illustrated light literature.