3967 - Diether Kressel, attributed, Hamburg Harbour

Diether Kressel, attributed, Hamburg Harbour Steamboats in the harbour in front of industrial buildings, a lively mixed-media work (watercolour and pastel) leaving patches of the paper white, circa 1950, signed ‘Kressel’ lower right, label on the reverse with a dedication printed, typewritten and supplemented by hand: ‘Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg - Sports Department - to the winning team at the fencing tournament of the Groß-Flottbeker Spielvereinigung von 1912 e.V. - 22 April 1956 - presented by the Sports Department - Gerhard Stöck - Director - Address: Hamburg 36, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Strasse 85 …”, signs of age, originally framed behind glass with a passe-partout, passe-partout dimensions approx. 32 x 46 cm. Artist information: also erroneously attributed to Dieter Kressel, German painter and graphic artist (1925 Düsseldorf - 2015 Hamburg); the family moved to Hamburg in the early 1930s; served as a soldier and was held as a prisoner of war during the Second World War; 1945-48: studied at the Landeskunstschule Hamburg under Willi Tietze and Erich Hartmann; met Axel Springer on Sylt; in the 1950s, devoted himself intensively to woodcut printing and worked as an illustrator for the *Hamburger Abendblatt* and *Stern*; from 1965, he devoted himself intensively to etching; in the early 1970s, the artist purchased an old Frisian house in Schleswig-Holstein; from then on, he worked alternately in the countryside and in Hamburg; the artist’s works are held in numerous collections and museums; source: Wikipedia, Der neue Rump, the *Hamburger Abendblatt* and the internet.