Lot 477: Eduard Hopf Hanau 1901 - Hamburg 1973 Jotunheimen,

Eduard Hopf
Hanau 1901 - Hamburg 1973
Jotunheimen, Norway
Watercolour, 24 x 31,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Ed. Hopf 1942 as well as titled 'Jotunheimen Norwegen', unframed. - 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. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle a. others), Schleswig (SHLM). - Lit.: Vollmer, Rump, Der Neue Rump a. others.