Lot 63: Flowering Rapeseed Field

Feddersen Hans Peter Westerschnatebüll 1848 - Kleiseerkoog 1941 Flowering Rapeseed Field Oil/canvas, 50 x 77 cm, lo. le. sign. Feddersen, lo. ri. dat. a. inscribed 91 Kleiseerkoog 25 Juni, on the stretchers fragments of labels. - One of the most important North German landscape painters of international reputation, studied at the Düsseldorf academy under O. Achenbach a. in Weimar under Th. Hagen, worked a. lived in Kleiseerkoog near Niebüll. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Martius/Stubbe 'Der Maler H.P.F.' (1966), Bieske 'H.P.F.' (1998), Schulte-Wülwer 'Sehnsucht nach Arkadien'.