Lot 446: In the High Mountains

Kameke Otto von, Stolp 1826 - Berlin 1899, In the High Mountains, Oil/cardboard, 32 x 49 cm, lo. ri. sign. O. v. Kameke. - German landscape painter a. grapic artist. K. first pursued a military career but quit the army to study painting in Rome since 1860 a. in Weimar under A. Böcklin, A. Michaelis u. St. von Kalckreuth since 1862. He first moved to Dresden but then settled in Berlin in 1875 where he became professor in 1889. Since 1864 his works were on display at all important exhibitions in Germany a. Austria. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Dresden, Brunswick, Leipzig a. others. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker a. others.