Fritz Bamberger
English coast between Hastings and Brighton
Oil on canvas. 138 x 210 cm.
Signed and dated lower right: F. Bamberger 1851.
In November 1861 (p. 5), this painting was already described in the art magazine "Dioskuren", which was published in Berlin from 1856 to 1875, while it was still being created:
" ... Bamberger has two very extensive pictures in progress, moving in such large and broad forms that the in-depth study of the immortal Rottmann cannot be misjudged in them. One of Bamberger's pictures shows the "Coast of England near Brighton" in magnificent outlines. A thunderstorm roars over the old battlefield of Hastings, threatening to plunge the chalk cliffs of the shore into the raging sea. But part of the sky is still unclouded and the sunlight shimmers on individual stretches of the coast, which shines brilliantly towards us".
Provenance
Acquired by the Bremer Kunstverein in 1862. - Sold by the Bremen Kunsthalle in 1951. - Since then in a German private collection.
Literature
Catalogue of the exhibition Kunsthalle Bremen 1863, p. 37. - J. M. Plötz: Der Landschaftmaler Fritz Bamberger (1814-1873), Schriften zur Kunstgechichte, vol. 23, Hamburg 2009, p. 209, no. .57.
Exhibitions
Kunsthalle Bremen 1863 and the following years. - Frankfurt a. M. 1909: Kunst und Künstler in Frankfurt am Main im 19. Jahrhundert (p. 5 in the catalogue).