Bidspirit auction | Ernst Gerhard

Ernst Gerhard - Ernst Gerhard ”Bright Night”. 1897.. Ernst Gerhard 1867 Landau/Pfalz – 1948 ? Oil on canvas. Signed, inscribed with place and dated ”E. Gerhard Paris 97.” lower right. Verso upper left again signed, inscribed with place and dated as well as titled. Verso on the upper stretcher bar with a restoration label ”Restored in 1937 / Akad. Maler Erich Nordus / Königsberg (Pr)”. Framed in a simple wooden frame with silver plating. Paint layer with inconspicuous climate edge, in the area of the sky with even craquelure. Small paint loss to the right of the chapel and two pressure marks with paint flaking in the sail of the lower ship. Retouches in the edge areas and larger ones especially in the upper part of the sky. In the rebate area isolated pressure marks and small lesions. Dimensions: 73.7 x 100.6 cm, frame 89 x 117 cm. Ernst Gerhard 1867 Landau/Pfalz – 1948 ? Studied at the Munich Academy and the Académie Julian in Paris. Exhibited, among others, at the Munich Secession and the Große Berliner Kunstausstellung. Member of the Luitpoldgruppe München.