Christian Rohlfs 1849-1938 Mondschein am Bergsee, 1931 Gouache on paper unten rechts monogrammiert und datiert CR 31 66 x 47.5 cm

Willy Knoop, "Montreux am Genfer See" summery view over the roofs of sophisticated lakeside buildings in Montreux, with a distant view over Lake Geneva to the imposing mountains of the Savoy Alps, impasto painting with broad brushstrokes, oil on fibreboard, fragmentary signature and date "Knoop [19]63" upper left, on the reverse original French artist's label "Willy Knoop Büsum - "Montreux am Lac Lémann [sic - actually: lac Léman] Oel". Artist's label "Willy Knoop Büsum - "Montreux am Lac Lémann [sic. - actually: lac Léman, German: Genfer See] Oel" on the reverse, stronger loss and detachment of the paint layer, in need of restoration, framed in a 12 cm wide designer frame by the framing workshop "Christiane Berg ... Hamburg" framing workshop, folded dimensions approx. 81.5 x 100.5 cm. Artist information: dt. Painter and watercolourist (1888 Lütjenburg - 1966 Hamburg-Wellingsbüttel), initially trained as a carpenter, artistically self-taught, from 1922 member of the artist group "Die Barke" in Oldenburg, from 1928 freelance expressionist artist in Hamburg, Member of the Hamburg Secession, contact with Erich Hartmann, Willem Grimm, Karl Kluth and Fritz Kronenberg, in 1937 Knoop was struck off the list of visual artists and banned from exhibiting, emigrated to Belgrade and travelled to Yugoslavia and Greece, moved to Vienna in 1938, 1944 exhibition opening in Graz, which was closed by the Gestapo on the same day, 1946 return to Hohwacht, Amt Lütjenburg and resumption of painting, from 1949 represented at exhibitions in London, Manchester and Edinburgh, 1950 Knoop painted several works for the film "Die Sünderin", 1954 moved to Büsum, from 1963 to 1965 back in Hamburg, 1956 founding member of the artists' association Gruppe 56 Schleswig-Holstein, Knoop is attributed to the Lost Generation, his wife was the painter and former student Margarete Knoop-Schellbach, source: Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Heydorn, "Der neue Rump" and Wikipedia.