4502 - Otto Schulz-Stradtmann, Binnenalster, Hamburg

Otto Schulz-Stradtmann, Binnenalster, Hamburg A spring-like view across the Binnenalster towards Hamburg’s Old Town, featuring the tower of St Peter’s Church, the tower of St Nicholas’ Church, alongside the tower of Hamburg Town Hall in the morning mist; a slightly impasto, Impressionist painting in subdued colours; oil on hardboard, c. 1950; signed ‘O. Schulz-Stradtmann”, various indistinct annotations on the reverse such as “K 597”, slight signs of ageing, framed in a gold stucco moulding, inner dimensions approx. 49.5 x 60 cm. Artist information: also known as Otto Schulz-Strathmann, German landscape painter (1892, Hamburg - 1960, Hamburg), studied in Hamburg, received further artistic training in Weimar, Amsterdam and Munich, resided in Munich 1922-33, worked in Dachau around 1925, in Hamburg from 1933 onwards; source: Vollmer, Dressler, Rump, Bruckmann, *Munich Painters of the 19th/20th Centuries*, ‘Saur Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists’ and the internet.