3984 - Engelbert Schoner, On the Baltic Sea Beach

Engelbert Schoner, On the Baltic Sea Beach View from the partly wooded dunes of a stretch of beach with numerous beach chairs; a landscape painting executed with loose brushstrokes; watercolour over graphite on light-weight card, mid-20th century, signed ‘E. Schoner’ lower left, slight signs of ageing, framed behind glass, inner dimensions approx. 40 x 60.5 cm. Artist information: German painter, graphic artist, illustrator and stamp designer (1906 Neuhaus am Rennweg - 1977 Weimar), 1921-23 pupil at the School of Drawing and Modelling in Lichte-Wallendorf, 1923-24 painter at a ceramics factory in Saalfeld and 1924-26 pattern designer at a flag factory in Coburg, 1927-28 worked as a glassblower; from 1928 studied at the Weimar Academy of Fine Art; in 1929 travelled to Venice; 1930-36 studied as a master student under Alexander Olbricht, Walther Klemm and Alfred Hierl; worked as a freelancer from 1936-46; from 1941, freelance lecturer at the Master School for Crafts and Applied Arts in Weimar; after 1945, designer of all the stamps issued after the Second World War by the Erfurt Regional Postal Directorate for Thuringia; worked as a professor at the Weimar Academy of Fine Arts; member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts and the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR; in 1971, he was awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit and, in 1976, the National Prize of the GDR; he worked in Weimar. Source: Vollmer, Eisold, *Artists in the GDR* and the internet.