826 - Friedrich Schaper, flower still life, dahlias, thistles and white flowers in tall glass vase, 1918

Friedrich Schaper, flower still life, dahlias, thistles and white flowers in tall glass vase, 1918 (1869 Braunschweig – 1956 Hamburg), oil on canvas, signed and dated (19)18 lower left, a bouquet with red dahlias, blue thistles, a yellow flower and white flowers in a slender tall glass vase against a red-brown background, condition commensurate with age, heavy craquelure, retouches, paint losses, image 81x54 cm (HxW), framed, frame width 5 cm Friedrich Schaper was born in Braunschweig on 13 November 1869 and died in Hamburg on 21 February 1956. After training as a decorative painter, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Hamburg and at the Berlin Academy, among others under Scheurenberg. In 1897 he was one of the co-founders of the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub, and he was also a member of the Berlin Secession. From 1902 he directed the state drawing courses for teachers in Hamburg, lived in Groß-Borstel from 1903 and was appointed professor in 1949. Schaper worked as a landscape, animal, genre and portrait painter, graphic artist and illustrator.