Lot 550: Sailing Boats off the Jungfernstieg in Hamburg

Heinsohn Alfred, Hamburg 1875 - Hamburg 1927, Sailing Boats off the Jungfernstieg in Hamburg, Oil/canvas, 51 x 73 cm, lo. ri. sign. A. Heinsohn. - German painter a. writer. After studying at the Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule a. at the Kunstgewerbeschulen Karlsruhe a. Düsseldorf H. became master student of Th. Hagen in Weimar a. also took lessons with Chr. Rohlfs. He joined the artist's colony in Schwaan in Mecklenburg as well as the Deutscher Künstlerbund. He travelled extensively to Switzerland, France a. South America. After the end of WW I he returned to Hamburg. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Rump, Der Neue Rump a. others.