Lot 460: Spring of Life

Dettmann Ludwig, Adelbye 1865 - Berlin 1944, Spring of Life, Oil/canvas, 120 x 144 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Ludwig Dettmann 94, on the stretcher label of the Internationale Kunstausstellung Berlin 1896. - Dettmann was awarded a gold medal for this painting in 1895 in Vienna. The painting is published in: M. Potztal, L. D., Ausstellungskatalog Flensburg 2008, p. 52. - Landscape, portrait, genre a. flower painter, one of the pioneers of impressionism in Germany, studied 1894-97 at the Hamburg school of applied arts, thereafter at the Berlin Academy under E. Bracht, F. Skarbina a. A.v. Werner, in 1900 he became head of the Königsberg Academy, together with M. Liebermann a. W. Leistikow he was one of the co-founders of the Berlin secession in 1898. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat. Gall.), Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum), Breslau, Flensburg a. others - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Bénézit, Rump, Der Neue Rump, Potzal 'L.D. - Zwischen Avantgarde u. Anpassung' (2008) a. others.