Paul Lehmann-Fahrwasser Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1885 - d. 1970

On the 23rd of October 1885, the artist was born as Max Felix Paul Lehmann. He spent his childhood in Halle (Saale) and from 1899 to 1905 trained as primary school teacher in Wandersleben and Elsterwerda. Subsequently he returned to Halle, where he had a teaching position from 1906-13 and absolved a training as high school teacher. In 1913 he moved to Berlin, where he attended the School of Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg from 1918-21 as well as the private painting school of Hans Licht. Since 1921 Lehmann-Fahrwasser regularly spent his summer on the island of Foehr. In 1935 he became a member of the Association of Berlin Artists. Characteristic for the artist, who used the pseudonym Lehmann-Fahrwasser and later Lehmann-Brauns, were accurate observation and loyalty for motifs up to the level of minutely attention to detail; this is in contrast with paintings featuring summary landscapes and dramatic cloud formations. Lehmann-Fahrwasser preferably painted North Frisian motives, especially the island of Foehr. He put further emphasis on industrial images, Marine Pictures, the Port of Hamburg, Berlin and Potsdam, Krkonoše, the Thuringian Forest and the Mittelgebirge. His works can for example be seen at the Museum Kunst der Westküste in Alkersum (Föhr), in the Ostfriesisches Landesmuseum in Emden and in the Schlesisches Museum in Görlitz.