Steinfels, John 1895 Reval (Talinn)- 1957 Erlangen, main genre of the Baltic German painter are landscapes, especially seascapes, besides also hunting pieces, mainly in tempera, he studied at the art academy in Riga and lived after the war as a freelance painter in Erlangen, "Pervomaiskoye near Kostyukovichi", tempera/pl., snow-covered landscape in a Russian village in Belarus, two-dimensional painting style with graphic brushstrokes, signed on the left and on the back. , inscribed on the reverse, margins dam., ca. 38x47cm, lit. Vollmer 4, 354, acquired Kiefer 50, Pforzheim 2003, 240 Euro

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