On 28 June 1902, Otto H. Engel wrote just one sentence to his wife Olga about his artistic progress on Föhr and the preliminary work on his painting “On a Holiday Morning”:
“Here is what the picture will look like, the one for which I have been painting studies.”(1) By way of explanation, his letter includes the sketched composition of his subsequent large-format work. This single sentence gives us clues about how the painting came into being. Engel’s method involved producing several studies on...
Signatur: Otto H. Engel, unten rechts, handschriftlich
(…); Kunsthandel, Schleswig-Holstein (1979); Privatbesitz, Schleswig-Holstein (1979–2013); MKdW (2013).
Jutta Müller: Otto H. Engel. Ein Künstlerleben um 1900 zwischen Berlin und Schleswig-Holstein. Monografie und Werkverzeichnis, Heide 1990, Nr. 128, Taf. XXIII. Otto H. Engel 1866–1949. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen eines Malers, hrsg. von Christoph Wodicka, Heide 2009, Abb. 187, S. 177, HV 146.