Ascan Lutteroth (1842 Hamburg - 1923 ibid.) North German landscape with a Galerieholländer windmill by a river Summery view of a village. Lutteroth studied under Oswald Achenbach at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1864-1867. Lutteroth spent 1868-1870 in Rome and undertook study trips through Italy. When he returned to his home town, he gained an important reputation as a landscape painter. The Crown Prince and Princess Friedrich Wilhelm and Victoria in particular held him in high esteem. Watercolor/paper. R., signed below; 65 cm x 45 cm. Frame. Provenance: from the collection of a Hamburg business family. Watercolor on paper. Signed.

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