Lot 499: By the River

Agthe Curt
Berlin 1862 - Berlin 1943
By the River
Oil/wood, 8 x 25,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. C. Agthe 89, on the reverse dedicated as well as sign. a. dat. - German landscape painter, studied 1880-87 at the Berlin academy under M. Michael, thereafter he travelled Italy a. Switzerland. He won many prizes, among others the gold medal at the San Francisco World's Fair in 1915 a. the Goethe medal in 1942. - Mus.: Berlin, Ludwigshafen (W.-Hack-Mus.), Rostock, Vaduz. - Lit.: Saur, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit a. others.