Friedrich Fehr (Werneck 1862 - 1927 Polling), ,Portrait of a young woman with hat, 1892, oil on card, signed and dated (scratched into the still damp paint) upper right, 24 x 17 cm, extraordinarily finely executed, atmospheric portrait, in black lacquer molding of the period, overall size: 37 x 30 cm. Limit 440,- >> German painter of historicism, 1878-84 Academy Munich, 1890 foundation of a private painting school, where he taught Emil Nolde among others, 1897 - 1923 professor at the academy of arts in Karlsruhe.

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