Lot 123: S.M.S. in the Port of Libau

Adolf Bock, Berlin 1890 - Helsingborg 1968 S.M.S. in the Port of Libau, Gouache, 24,5 x 41 cm, lo. ri. sign. a. dat. Adolf Bock 1918 as well as titled, framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - German Marine a. veduta painter. B. was pupil of H. Bohrdt, thereafter he studied at the Berlin academy with a scholarship granted by the emperor. Since 1919 he lived a. worked in Finland. He was among the few surviving passengers of the shipwreck of the Wilhelm Gustloff in 1945. - Mus.: Berlin, Stockholm. - Lit: Vollmer.