4082 - Karl Hänsel, At the Harbour

Karl Hänsel, At the Harbour View of several cargo ships moored in the harbour basin, with buildings and cranes in the background; coloured chalks on paper, signed, inscribed and dated ‘Karl Hänsel, Dresden 1940”, slight signs of wear, framed under a mount and behind glass, mount dimensions approx. 38 x 61 cm. Artist information: real name Karl Ernst Hänsel, also known as “Karl Hänsel-Dresden”, German painter, draughtsman and etcher, as well as commercial artist and poster artist (1868, Dresden-Löbtau - 1947, Radebeul near Dresden); initially trained as a porcelain painter and studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts under Ermenegildo Antonio Donadini, studied at the Dresden Academy under Leon Pohle from 1889 to 1894 and was a master student of Ferdinand Pauwels from 1890 to 1894; submitted works to the major art exhibitions in Berlin, Dresden and Hamburg, as well as the Glaspalast in Munich; a member of the General German Art Cooperative, the Dresden Art Cooperative, the German Artists’ Association in Weimar and the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany; worked in Dresden; source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia*, Müller-Singer, Dressler, student registers of the Dresden Academy and the internet.