1020 - Dietrich Genau, Wooden Pump at the Historic Bakery in Hoym, Street View, 2012

Dietrich Genau, Wooden Pump at the Historic Bakery in Hoym, Street View, 2012 (1936 Osnabrueck to 2026), oil on chipboard, signed centre right, inscribed Hoym and dated (20)12, monogrammed D.G. lower right. Street view of Hoym in evening light with the wooden pump at the old bakery, the pump standing on a round cobbled island in the middle of the road; to the right a two-storey half-timbered house with a masonry plinth, a green-painted ground floor and a small sign above the door, to the left of it a brick wall with climbing plants and trees behind, adjoining on the right a further half-timbered building, on the left rendered houses with red tiled roofs; the sky orange and yellow on the left, clouded blue towards the right. The painting records the appearance of the town around 1850. Good condition, chip to the paint at the upper edge. Image 51x71 cm (HxW). Framed, plastic frame, scuffed in places, frame width 10 cm Hoym was first mentioned in 961, received town rights in 1543 and from 1721 was the residence of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym. The historic centre in the northern foothills of the Harz is still characterised by half-timbered buildings and is listed with 74 entries in the monument register of Saxony-Anhalt. Dietrich Genau was the local chronicler of Hoym and recorded the history of his home town over decades in drawings, watercolours and oil paintings. In 2020 he received the cultural prize of the Salzlandkreis for his work in local heritage; in 2024 the parliament of Saxony-Anhalt showed an exhibition of his works on the theme of Heimat.