WILHEM GAUSE (GERMAN 1853-1916)

WILHEM GAUSE (GERMAN 1853-1916)

The Recital ,
gouache on paper
49 x 33 cm (19 1/4 x 13 in.)
signed lower right

PROVENANCE
Christie�s, London, June 12, 1997, lot 214
Collection of Nicholas Zoullas
His sale, Guernsey�s, New York, May 12, 2020, lot 82
Acquired at the above by the present owner

LOT NOTES
A draftsman and genre painter, Wilhelm Gause was born on March 27, 1853 in Krefeld, Rhein. He began his art training as a student of Eduard von Gebhardt and, from 1871, at the academy in Dusseldorf. In 1879, he moved to Vienna, where he made his living primarily as an illustrator. Ten years later, in 1889, he received an honorary dipolma from the international watercolor exhibition in Dresden. While his best known works are his Genre scenes of everyday folk life, he also frequently created gouache sheets as templates for woodcuts.

CONDITION

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