The interior in Fritz Cohr's painting shows the tailor Fritz Wilhelm Rörden (1853–1936), widely known on Föhr, and his sister Catharina Rosina Rörden (1850–1935), who were usually called Fritz and Cathrine Jung Hansen after their renowned grandmother Elena Jung Hansen.(1)
We look over the shoulder of Cathrine, dressed in traditional Föhrer costume, into the cosy living room, "Dörnsk" in Frisian, of the siblings' small thatched-roof house. They are sewing together at a folding table opposite each...
Signature and date: signed and dated: Fr. Cohrs 29, lower right
Privatbesitz Föhr (bis 2005); MKdW (2005).
Ulrich Schulte-Wülwer: Föhr, Amrum und die Halligen in der Kunst, Heide 2003, S. 227, Abb. S. 226.