Hugo Schnars-Alquist, A Lifeboat at Sea (Help in Sight)
Hugo Schnars-Alquist
Schnars-Alquist 1855 Hamburg - 1939 Hamburg
A Lifeboat at Sea (Help in Sight)
Oil on canvas, mounted on panel. 112 x 177 cm.
Signed lower right: Schnars-Alquist. Provenance
Formerly the private collection of Emperor Wilhelm II. - Presumably P. Dahm, Leipzig. - Acquired in 1973 in Borkum from Kunsthandlung Gripekoven, Münster. - Subsequently in German private ownership. Literature
Geo Hunold: Schnars-Alquist. Sein Leben und seine Kunst, Bremen 1925, p. 105.
The maritime painter Hugo Schnars-Alquist spent his formative years in Hamburg. Following several first highly accomplished self taught works he became a master pupil of Hans Gude at the Academy in Berlin. In 1891 he founded the "Vereinigung der XI" together with Max Liebermann, Walter Leistikow and several other artists. He became a professor in 1896 before returning to Hamburg in 1898. Numerous sea voyages throughout the world taught him to paint the ocean in all its moods. His paintings found their way into private collections in Germany and America. Geo Hunold (op. cit.) dated this work, entitled "Hilfe in Sicht" (help in sight) and formerly housed in the private collection of Emperor Wilhelm II, to 1890.
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Hugo Schnars-Alquist
Schnars-Alquist 1855 Hamburg - 1939 Hamburg
A Lifeboat at Sea (Help in Sight)
Oil on canvas, mounted on panel. 112 x 177 cm.
Signed lower right: Schnars-Alquist. Provenance
Formerly the private collection of Emperor Wilhelm II. - Presumably P. Dahm, Leipzig. - Acquired in 1973 in Borkum from Kunsthandlung Gripekoven, Münster. - Subsequently in German private ownership. Literature
Geo Hunold: Schnars-Alquist. Sein Leben und seine Kunst, Bremen 1925, p. 105.
The maritime painter Hugo Schnars-Alquist spent his formative years in Hamburg. Following several first highly accomplished self taught works he became a master pupil of Hans Gude at the Academy in Berlin. In 1891 he founded the "Vereinigung der XI" together with Max Liebermann, Walter Leistikow and several other artists. He became a professor in 1896 before returning to Hamburg in 1898. Numerous sea voyages throughout the world taught him to paint the ocean in all its moods. His paintings found their way into private collections in Germany and America. Geo Hunold (op. cit.) dated this work, entitled "Hilfe in Sicht" (help in sight) and formerly housed in the private collection of Emperor Wilhelm II, to 1890.