4402 - Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser, Gravel Pit in Lusatia

Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser, Gravel Pit in Lusatia A view down into a gravel pit from above; in the background, the gravel plant and other industrial buildings; an impressive, late-Impressionist painting of an open-cast mining site; oil on canvas mounted on hardboard, 1930s, signed lower left, signs of wear, minimally restored, inner dimensions approx. 100 x 165 cm. Artist information: whose real name was Otto Engelhardt, but who went by the name Otto Engelhardt-Kyffhäuser as an artist; German painter and graphic artist (1884, Artern - 1965, Göttingen); studied at the Kassel Academy from 1901 to 1907, and later in Berlin and Weimar; friends with, amongst others, Max Liebermann, Christian Rohlfs, Max Beckmann and Edvard Munch; member of the Weimar Etching Society; worked as an art teacher in Görlitz from 1919 to 1939; submitted works to the Great German Art Exhibitions at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich from 1938 to 1944; member of the Lausitz Artists’ Association, the German Artists’ Association in Weimar and the Thuringian Association of Visual Artists; moved to Göttingen after 1945; undertook study trips to Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, England and Egypt; source: Vollmer, Dressler and the internet.