Karl Otto Hy, Hochwasser in Schierstein View of numerous trees standing in the water and some boats, watercolour, signed, numbered and dated "K. O. Hy Nr. 15 (19)39" lower left, partly illegibly inscribed "Hochwasser im ...bad Schierstein" lower right, mounted in passepartout, passepartout cut-out approx. 32 x 43 cm. Artist info: German architect, painter. German architect, painter, commercial artist and draughtsman (1904 Rüdesheim am Rhein to 1992 Wiesbaden), first art lessons at Hermann Bouffier's private painting school in Wiesbaden between 1916 and 1918, attended Kaspar Kögler's studio, trained as a decorative painter, From 1925 to 1929, attended the arts and crafts schools in Mainz and Wiesbaden with Hans Christiansen, Otto Fischer-Trachau and Otto Arpke, worked for the Wiesbaden architect Johann Wilhelm Lehr, worked as a freelance commercial artist in 1930 and later as an architect, contact with other artists from Wiesbaden such as Ernst Wolff-Malm, Edmund Fabry, Willy Mulot, Paul Dahlen, Alexej von Jawlensky, 1942 to 1948 in Soviet captivity, then lived in Wiesbaden and from 1962 in Georgenborn, in addition to his work as a commercial artist and architect, Hy was also active as an artist of drawings, watercolours and paintings, he painted landscapes, cityscapes, portraits, still lifes and abstractions, above all his cool, neo-objective, detailed painted views of Wiesbaden reveal the architect's eye, membership and from 1978 chairman of the Ring of Visual Artists Wiesbaden, source: Wikipedia.