4077 - Robert Paul Geissler, "Passau on the Danube ..."

Robert Paul Geissler, "Passau on the Danube ..." A summer view from the Veste Oberhaus of the Danube near Passau, a lively mixed-media work (gouache and watercolour over a pencil sketch) on card, signed and dated ‘R. P. Geissler [19]39”, artist’s address on the reverse: “Robert Paul Geissler, Dresden A., Burkhardtstr. 15.”, titled “Passau a./d. Danube - Unteres Haus [sic. - ‘Veste Oberhaus’ would probably be correct]” and annotation “Owned by: Dr Wilhelm”, signs of age, originally framed under glass, inner dimensions approx. 37 x 47.5 cm. Artist’s biography: also known as Geißler, a German landscape and genre painter as well as a copyist (1874-1954, Glauchau), studied at the Schools of Applied Arts in Berlin and Dresden, undertook study trips to Italy, Switzerland and Russia; exhibited, amongst other things, at the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich in 1941; board member of the Dresden Artists’ Cooperative and the Saxon Artists’ Support Association; member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany; later a member of the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts, worked in Dresden, and later returned to Glauchau; source: Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia*, Dressler and the internet.