Lot 170: Landscape

Schnegg, Hugo Ernst
Ansbach 1876 - Hamburg 1950
Landscape
Ca. 1903/04, oil/canvas, 36,5 x 62 cm, lo. le. sign. Hugo Ernst Schnegg. - German figure a. landscape painter, popular Hamburg portrait painter. S. studied at the Munich school of applied arts a. the academy under G. von Hackl a. F. von Stuck, whose master student he became. In 1922 he settled in Hamburg a. became member of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft as well as the artist groups 'de Warft' a. 'Niederelbe'. Together with Anita Rée he travelled Sicily. - Mus.: Augsburg, Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Bremen (Kunsthalle) a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Der Neue Rump, Dressler, Bruhns a. others.