664 - Eduard Hildebrandt, Old Hong Kong - ‘Pirate Street’, watercolour from 1862/64, framed

Eduard Hildebrandt, Old Hong Kong - ‘Pirate Street’, watercolour from 1862/64, framed Eduard Hildebrandt, 1818 Danzig - 1868 Berlin, a leading 19th-century German landscape and marine painter, who became known worldwide primarily for his exotic travel paintings; here: View of ‘Pirate Street’ in Old Hong Kong, watercolour from Hildebrandt’s Asian journey in 1862-64, 34 x 24 cm, inscribed on the left, signed on the right, mounted with a passepartout, framed under glass About the artist: Eduard von Gebhardt studied under the marine painter Wilhelm Krause (1803-1864) in Berlin. Supported by Alexander von Humboldt and King Frederick William IV, he soon travelled throughout Europe. At his own expense, Eduard Hildebrandt then undertook a spectacular round-the-world journey from 1862 to 1864. He travelled through the Middle East, India, South-East Asia, as well as China and Japan. During this journey, he produced watercolours and oil sketches that captured exotic coastlines, foreign cultures and dramatic lighting conditions in an exemplary manner; today, they are regarded as unique testimonies to a bygone era.