Oil on canvas 62.5 x 100 cm, framed. Not inscribed [Signature and date, as originally mentioned by Rave, possibly formerly applied in thin pen and ink as typical for Seehaus, now extinguished]. On reverse on stretcher at top inscribed "Seehaus Eifellandschaft" in green crayon. - The margins of canvas spanned larger beyond painting onto stretcher. In places with fine colour shrinkage.
Dering G 55 with ill. p. 90
Rave Verz. I.43 (there still described as signed, dated: " Große Eifellandschaft. 62:100, bez. Seehaus 16. Prof. Alfred Fischer, Essen")
The painting is documented by an old black and white photo in the artist's estate (only partly reproduced in the catalogue raisonné by Dering, see our ill.)
Certificate
With a photo-certificate by Peter Dering, Brussels, dated 22 October 2011; we would like to thank Peter Dering for kind additional information.
Provenance
Formerly collection Prof. Alfred Fischer, Essen; Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke (1878-1965), Estate (acquired there); private possession, Western Germany
Literature
Peter Dering, Paul Adolf Seehaus (1891-1919), Leben und Werk, Bonn 2004, p. 90 f.; Paul Ortwin Rave, Paul Adolf Seehaus, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch 1925, 2 vol., p. 209, nr. 43
Exhibitions
Berlin 1921 (Kronprinzenpalais), Junge Rheinische Kunst (without cat.); Berlin 1926 (Kronprinzenpalais), Gedenk-Ausstellung Paul Adolf Seehaus (without cat.); Bonn 1952 (exhibition hall of Kaufhof), Bonn und der Rheinische Expressionismus, cat. nr. 76