4501 - Fritz Schulze-Blanck, Portrait of a Dachshund

Fritz Schulze-Blanck, Portrait of a Dachshund a red-and-black dachshund sitting in a sunny summer landscape against a green background; a slightly impasto-like animal painting with loose, broad brushstrokes; oil on canvas, c. 1930, signed ‘Schulze-Blanck [sic.]’ in the lower left-hand corner, slightly restored, originally framed, inner dimensions approx. 49.5 x 65 cm. Artist information: erroneously listed as Fritz Schulze-Blank, signed “Schulze-Blanck”, German genre, portrait and animal painter, as well as illustrator and draughtsman (1874, Berlin - after 1930), studied at the Berlin Academy under Paul Friedrich Meyerheim and Max Koner, exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, worked in Berlin, recorded as working in Potsdam from 1926 at the latest; source: Dressler 1930, Thieme-Becker, Saur’s ‘Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Lexicon’, catalogues of the Great Berlin Art Exhibition 1897, 1901, 1909, 1914, 1926 and online.