Guido Hampe, Coast near Swinoujscie Autumnal view over the east pier of Swinemünde [Polish: Świnoujście] in West Pomerania, built in 1805, with fishermen in front of the two lighthouses, in the foreground the 16 m high lighthouse, built in 1828-29 and demolished in 1878, popularly called "Black Widow" because of its shadow play, which was the first iron lighthouse in Germany, the Swinemünde doctor Richard Kind wrote about it "... On a stone base is erected with a granite column and a structure consisting of iron bars. In the upper part of the tower there are 5 real silver parabolic mirrors (reflectors). ...", in the background the new lighthouse built after the extension of the eastern pier in 1877, low impasto painting, rare unusual subject of Hampe, oil on canvas, probably around 1877, signed lower right "G. Hampe", on the reverse of the stretcher indistinct annotations in lead, craquelure, old retouching, in need of restoration, framed in the magnificent, original, about 17 cm wide gold stucco frame, folding dimensions about 72 x 94.5 cm. Artist info: German landscape painter (1839 Berlin to 1902 Berlin?), undertook study trips to Greece, Italy and Spain and found his motifs mainly in Thuringia, the Black Forest and Switzerland, supplied the Berlin Academy Exhibition 1862-70, active in Berlin, source: Thieme-Becker, Boetticher, Bénézit, Saur and Wikipedia.