Null Erich Demmin (Ivenack 1911 - 1997 Berlin), ,Amsterdam: View over the Prinse…
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Erich Demmin (Ivenack 1911 - 1997 Berlin), ,Amsterdam: View over the Prinsengracht to the Westerkerk, oil on wood, signed on the lower right, 24 x 18 cm, silver frame in the manner of a Berlin bar with the seal of the framer Matthias Demmin, Berlin, overall size: 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Limit 108,- >> German landscape painter, graphic artist and restorer, 1931-39 studied at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst in Berlin-Charlottenburg under Max Kutschmann, member of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Berlin.

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Erich Demmin (Ivenack 1911 - 1997 Berlin), ,Amsterdam: View over the Prinsengracht to the Westerkerk, oil on wood, signed on the lower right, 24 x 18 cm, silver frame in the manner of a Berlin bar with the seal of the framer Matthias Demmin, Berlin, overall size: 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Limit 108,- >> German landscape painter, graphic artist and restorer, 1931-39 studied at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für freie und angewandte Kunst in Berlin-Charlottenburg under Max Kutschmann, member of the Berufsverband Bildender Künstler Berlin.

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