6159 - Dücker, Eugène Gustav

Dücker, Eugène Gustav Landscape of the Bodden with Fishermen’s Cottages. Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard. 31.5 x 52.5 cm. Signed “E. Dücker” lower right. Eugen Dücker came from a German-Baltic family and, after taking his first drawing lessons with Friedrich Siegmund Stern, attended the Academy in St. Petersburg from 1858 to 1862. In 1864, he settled in Düsseldorf and embarked on numerous study trips, primarily to the German Baltic Sea coast, but also to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, and Italy, often accompanied by friends and fellow painters such as Ivan Ivanovich Siskin and Lev Levovich Kamenev, or Carl Irmer and Christian Kröner. In Germany in particular, Dücker quickly gained great renown and considerable financial success with his serene coastal, beach, and dune landscapes—and the Russian imperial family also acquired several of his paintings. This summery view is strongly reminiscent of Bodden or lagoon landscapes and was likely painted during one of these study trips. In 1872, he succeeded Oswald Achenbach as professor of landscape painting at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. Initially influenced by the Russian Realists and the Peredvizhniki movement, Dücker—under the influence of the Barbizon School and the “Paysage Intime”—developed his own distinctive approach to landscape painting, one that proved pioneering for the Düsseldorf School. Provenance: From the artist’s estate (bearing the estate stamp on the reverse). - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.