Martin van Waning (Den Haag 1889 - 1972 Dokum), ,Auf einer holländischen Werft, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 50 x 70 cm, in stucco gold frame in baroque style, overall size: 65 x 85 cm. Limit 120,- >> Dutch painter and sculptor. Painter and sculptor, initially active as an architect, around 1910 in Wiesbaden and Düsseldorf, 1917 return to the Netherlands, 1934 studio on Schiermonnikoog (in the former nautical school); during the Second World War a bomb destroyed his studio and thus a large part of his previous work.

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