3988 - Magnus Weidemann, Sylt Landscape

Magnus Weidemann, Sylt Landscape A gently undulating stretch of shoreline with a farmstead and a windmill; the church at Keitum can be seen in the background; a landscape depiction rendered in subtle tones, watercolour and a little white overpainting on light-weight card, ligated monogram and dated ‘MW 1923’ in the lower right-hand corner, minimal signs of wear, securely mounted behind a passe-partout, passe-partout dimensions approx. 22.5 x 38 cm. Artist information: German landscape and marine painter, as well as graphic artist, photographer and writer (1880, Hamburg - 1967, Keitum/Sylt); initially studied theology from 1901 to 1908, philosophy and art history; worked as a vicar on Amrum, in Blankenese and Kiebitzreihe near Elmshorn; from 1919 gave up the vicarage to devote himself to painting; self-taught artist, from 1921 lived on Sylt and was a co-founder of the Free Body Culture Movement; undertook study trips to Sweden; from 1923 was editor of the magazine ‘Freude’, produced nude photographs in the 1920s; member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany and the Schleswig-Holstein Artists’ Cooperative; worked in Keitum on Sylt; Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Der Neue Rump and the internet.