1012 - Dietrich Genau, Small Lane in Hoym, Half-Timbered Alley at Dusk, Anhalt, 2001

Dietrich Genau, Small Lane in Hoym, Half-Timbered Alley at Dusk, Anhalt, 2001 (1936 Osnabrueck to 2026), oil on canvas, signed and dated (20)01 lower right, titled, inscribed with the place name and dated Hoym in December 2001 on the reverse. View into a narrow lane in Hoym at dusk; on the left a row of houses lying in shadow with a projecting lean-to roof and dark gates, on the right a half-timbered house with pale infill panels and a pale boarded gate, behind it further buildings with a chimney, the sky violet-blue. Good condition commensurate with age, paint lifting and flaking at the edges. Image 40.5x34.5 cm (HxW). Framed, frame width 5.5 cm The lane connects the streets An der Kirche and Kirchgasse in the oldest part of Hoym; several half-timbered buildings stand there under monument protection, at An der Kirche 1 and at Kirchgasse 1, 2 and 3, the last of these the parsonage. Hoym was first mentioned in a document in 961 and was raised to a town in 1543 by Prince Wolfgang of Anhalt. Dietrich Genau, resident in Hoym since childhood, made his name as local chronicler and regional painter; in 2020 he received the cultural prize of the Salzlandkreis, and in 2024 he was represented with an exhibition in the parliament of Saxony-Anhalt.