Lot 9: Women by the Well

Kolbe Carl Wilhelm d.J. Berlin 1781 - Berlin 1853 Women by the Well Oil/canvas/masonite, 32 x 23 cm, lo. le. fragment of the signature as well as indistinctly dat., some rest. - German painter a. graphic artist, nephew of his homonymous uncle, pupil of Chodowiecki, most important romantic painter of Berlin, since 1830 professor of the Berlin academy, repeatedly decorated, among others with the Grand Gold medal in 1853. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Graz. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit.