Otto Heinrich Engel

Frisian Woman Standing in the Wind (Ella Olufs), 1904

Art sometimes leads down long and very winding paths: thought to have been lost for 100 years, this oil study turned up in the Argentinian art trade in 2019. It was painted by the artist Otto H. Engel, who studied at the art academies in Berlin and Karlsruhe, in September 1904. Engel, one of the founders of the Berlin Secession along with Max Liebermann, first travelled to the North Sea island in 1901 and was so inspired by its unique culture and nature that he returned every summer and develope...

Signatur: Otto H. Engel., unten links

Kunsthändler Frederico C. Müller, Buenos Aires (erworben direkt vom Künstler, 1920); Privatbesitz, Argentinien (bis 2019); MKdW (2019).
Jutta Müller: Otto H. Engel. Ein Künstlerleben um 1900 zwischen Berlin und Schleswig-Holstein. Monografie und Werkverzeichnis, Heide 1990, Nr. 145, S. 131.
Otto H. Engel 1866–1949. Briefe und Aufzeichnungen eines Malers, hrsg. von Christoph Wodicka, Heide 2009, HV 346.

Otto Heinrich Engel (1866 - 1949)

Frisian Woman Standing in the Wind (Ella Olufs)

1904

Oil on cardboard

43 x 32 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 ENG 10

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2001

Not on display