849 - Ernst Eichhorn-Holeck, angler before a gorge with wooden bridge, rocks and spruces, Harz painter

Ernst Eichhorn-Holeck, angler before a gorge with wooden bridge, rocks and spruces, Harz painter (1888 Ziegenhals to 1963 Goslar), oil on painting board, signed lower right, rocky gorge with a massive light-coloured boulder in the centre, dark spruces at left, across the stream a wooden bridge with railing and a figure, in front left of centre by the water a seated angler with rod, condition commensurate with age, retouching, partially slightly rubbed and with craquelure, image 49.5x60 cm (HxW), framed, frame bumped, frame width 6.5 cm Ernst Eichhorn-Holeck (1888 to 1963) came from Ziegenhals in Upper Silesia, completed an apprenticeship as a painter and attended the School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau; he took his master craftsman's examination in Dresden. Initially an animal and church painter, he turned to landscape painting. In 1946 he was a founding member of the Harz group of the Bund bildender Künstler, whose chairmanship he took over in 1950; in 1956 he became its honorary member.