4110 - Richard Naumann-Coschütz, Summer

Richard Naumann-Coschütz, Summer young farming couple against the light-filled landscape of the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, pencil and watercolour on light-weight card, ligated monogram ‘RNC’ and dated ‘1917’ in the bottom right-hand corner, minimal signs of ageing, framed with a passe-partout and behind glass, passe-partout dimensions approx. 12.5 x 28.5 cm. Artist information: real name Max Richard Naumann, German writer, painter, draughtsman, graphic artist, bookplate and commercial artist (1886 Freital - 1961 Dresden); initially trained as a lithographer from 1900, studied at the Dresden Academy from 1909 under Robert Sterl, Oskar Zwintscher, Richard Müller and Hermann Prell, 1919-22: master student under Ludwig von Hofmann; from 1923: freelance in Dresden; subsequently became a sensitive portrayer of the Dresden countryside, particularly Saxon Switzerland; worked in Dresden-Coschütz; source: Student registers of the Dresden Academy and the internet.