673 - Hans Looschen, Masked Ball, oil painting circa 1900 in its original ornate frame

Hans Looschen, Masked Ball, oil painting circa 1900 in its original ornate frame Hans Looschen, 1859 - Berlin - 1923, German genre, landscape and history painter, member of the Berlin Secession; here: A young couple, magnificently dressed in the Rococo style, mingle with other guests at a masked ball; an atmospheric, ‘modern’ oil on canvas, circa 1900 (Berlin Secession), 80 x 64 cm, signed on the left, in its original magnificent black-and-gold stucco frame, from the Otto Weigand Collection, SaarbrückenAbout the artist: Hans Looschen was a landscape painter, portraitist and illustrator; he also produced still lifes and monumental historical paintings characterised by the realism of the late 19th century. He received his professional training at the Prussian Academy of Arts. His tutors were Paul Thumann, Otto Knille and Ernst Hildebrand. In 1887, Looschen took part in the Berlin Academy exhibitions for the first time, and from 1893 onwards he regularly exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition. From 1899 to 1901, his work was featured at the Berlin Secession. In 1908, he was awarded the title of professor. In 1909, he was represented with the painting ‘The Blue Clock’ at the travelling exhibition ‘Exhibition of Contemporary German Art’, which was on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Copley Society in Boston. In 1914, he took part in the Venice Biennale with a painting entitled “Ein Geschenk”.