Lot 242: Blossoming Trees

Hopf, Eduard Hanau 1901 - Hamburg 1973
Blossoming Trees
Watercolour, 47 x 62,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Ed. Hopf 49, lo. le. titled 'Blühende Bäume', framed under glass, uninspected out of frame.

Versatile German landscape a. figure painter, trained at the Hanau drawing acadamy a. apprenticeship as goldsmith, member of the Hamburger Künstlerverein, in 1927/28 he exhibited with the Hamburg secession, 1930 first of numerous travels to Norway, all of his works were destroyed in WW II, in 1950 he became member of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft.