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Robert Schmidt-Hamburg (Berlin 1885 - 1963 Laboe), "Die SMS Emden beschießt am 22.9.1914 die Ölanlagen von Madras", gouache on chamois-colored half cardboard, signed lower left, titled lower right, 33.5 x 45 cm, a short tear (approx. 5 mm) in the upper right margin, unmarked Provenance: Werner Collection, Neunkirchen. Limit 630,- >> German marine painter, self-taught, undertook numerous sea voyages until 1914 and spent 72 months as a sailor, 1914-16 as a volunteer on board the "Lothringen", from 1916 studio in Kiel, since the early 1920s in Laboe.

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Robert Schmidt-Hamburg (Berlin 1885 - 1963 Laboe), "Die SMS Emden beschießt am 22.9.1914 die Ölanlagen von Madras", gouache on chamois-colored half cardboard, signed lower left, titled lower right, 33.5 x 45 cm, a short tear (approx. 5 mm) in the upper right margin, unmarked Provenance: Werner Collection, Neunkirchen. Limit 630,- >> German marine painter, self-taught, undertook numerous sea voyages until 1914 and spent 72 months as a sailor, 1914-16 as a volunteer on board the "Lothringen", from 1916 studio in Kiel, since the early 1920s in Laboe.

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