4118 - Hugo Schimmel, Portrait of Gustav Hoyer

Hugo Schimmel, Portrait of Gustav Hoyer Portrait of a gentleman wearing pince-nez, looking towards the viewer against a light background, A portrait painted in a balanced colour scheme with a slightly impasto application of paint, oil on canvas, signed and dated ‘Hugo Schimmel 1921’ in the lower right-hand corner, inscribed ‘No. 210. Hugo Schimmel, Dresden 1921” and “City Councillor … Gustav Hoyer Schönebeck +12 Dec. 1915”, the painting was created after the subject’s death, slight signs of wear, framed, inner dimensions approx. 82.5 x 66 cm. Artist information: German painter and graphic artist (1869, Chemnitz - 1935/36, Munich?), studied at the Academy in Dresden under Carl Bantzer, worked in Munich, member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany, source: Dressler.