Hans Salzmann, attr, Seascape late summer view, past pine trees on the lakeshore, on wide lakeside landscape, low impasto landscape painting, oil on canvas, circa 1940, signed in lower left ligatured "HSalzmann", on the reverse partly illegible annotations on the stretcher "Hoffmann ...", somewhat in need of restoration, originally framed, folding dimensions approx. 41.5 x 56.5 cm. Artist info: German painter and graphic artist (1900 Frankfurt/Oder to 1973 Weimar), 1914-18 apprenticeship as a lithographer, 1921-27 studied at the Grand Ducal Saxon College in Weimar with Albert Brendel and Alexander Olbricht, 1927 master student with Hugo Gugg, in the 2nd World War war service and captivity, active in Weimar and member of the Lucas Cranach Künstlergenossenschaft, source: Stadtarchiv Frankfurt an der Oder and Internet.

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