7019 - Folkerts, Poppe

Folkerts, Poppe "Baltrum - Ostende" Oil on wood. 1928. 43 x 63 cm. Signed "Poppe Folkerts" in black with a brush in the lower right corner and titled "Baltrum" in the lower left corner; on the reverse, signed again in blue chalk, dated, titled, and later inscribed "Christmas 1943." A slice of the North Sea coast: The view sweeps out into the distance across the beach shimmering brightly in the sun, the dunes, and the few houses of Ostende. The quiet, unspoiled town of Ostende lies at the eastern tip of Baltrum, the smallest of the East Frisian islands. Poppe Folkerts, a sailor, yachtsman, and one of the most significant painters of the Frisian coast, studied at the Berlin Academy and was a student of Carl Saltzmann from from 1902 to 1903 under Friedrich Kallmorgen, then as a master student under Ludwig Dettmann in Königsberg, and finally at the Académie Julian in Paris. Recommendations from his teachers—and particularly from Anton von Werner—enabled him to undertake study trips aboard imperial naval vessels, during which he traveled across the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, along the European Atlantic coast, and through the Mediterranean as far as Istanbul and Jerusalem. Provenance: Private collection, Berlin - 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.