Otto Heinrich Engel

On a Holiday Morning, 1903

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.

Otto Heinrich Engel (1866 - 1949)

On a Holiday Morning

1903

Oil on canvas

120 x 160 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 4 ENG 02

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2013

On display