Otto Heinrich Engel

In Front of the Mirror (Käthe Lorenzen), 1910

Otto Heinrich Engel spent almost the entire summer of 1910 on the Flensburg Firth. He did not continue on to Föhr until the end of August, where he again took up residence in Nieblum, finding accommodation with Pauline Bleeg (1845–1912) and even a small studio in the barn of her captain’s house (on Bi de Süd 18). In this time the artist produced this work as well, which he had prepared with two drawings and another pair of studies in a sketch book the year before. In this painted version of the...

Signatur: Otto H. Engel, unten rechts, handschriftlich

Nummerierung: 619., rückseitig auf Karton, handschriftlich, in Tusche

Kunsthandlung Carl L. Jensen, Wyk/Föhr (Anfang der 1920er-Jahre); (...); Kunsthandel, Hamburg (um 1995); Privatbesitz, Föhr (1998–2005); MKdW (2005).
Otto H. Engel 1866–1949. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen eines Malers, hrsg. Christoph Wodicka, Heide 2009, Abb. 284, S. 251, HV 619.

Otto Heinrich Engel (1866 - 1949)

In Front of the Mirror (Käthe Lorenzen)

1910

Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard

54 x 40 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 2 ENG 04

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2005

Not on display