4500 - Max Schröder, Autumnal Spreewald

Max Schröder, Autumnal Spreewald a romantic view of a barge, with a cottage and a little dove in the background, a landscape painting rendered in a thick, impasto style, oil on canvas, signed lower left, labelled on the reverse and bearing an adhesive label with biographical details, framed in a black lacquered moulding, backed several times on the reverse, inner dimensions approx. 37 x 50 cm. Artist information: actually Schröder or Schroeder, he adopted an artistic pseudonym based on his birthplace, Greifswald, German marine painter and illustrator (1858 Greifswald - 1948 Berlin?), initially a seaman, worked as a painter and illustrator in Greifswald from 1885, later a pupil of Prof. Eschke at the Berlin Academy and based in Berlin, Source: Thieme-Becker, Singer and the internet.