Werner Riemann (1893-1936) oil canvas Baltic Sea cutter sailor boats

Price: 1200.00 €

Product details

Product number: 951
Artist: Werner Riemann
Material: Oil

Product description

OIL painting by the East Prussian painter Werner Riemann (1893-1936),

Sunny day on the Baltic Sea (probably Nidden)

Oil canvas, dimensions 55 x 75 cm.

Signed lower right.

Within the framework of time (free addition!)

Further images will be sent upon request!


Riemann was the son of a teacher and attended secondary school in Königsberg. From 1910 he studied at the Königsberg Art Academy with Ludwig Dettmann, Arthur Degner and Heinrich Wolff.[1], then at the Berlin Academy with Hans Baluschek and Max Liebermann. In 1913 he visited Nidden for the first time with Ernst Mollenhauer. As a volunteer, he went to the First World War in 1914, first in the 1st Life Hussar Regiment No. 1, later in the Infantry Regiment “Herzog Karl von Mecklenburg-Strelitz” (6th East Prussian) No. 43. He became an officer in 1916 was awarded the Iron Cross, Second Class, and returned to the Königsberg Academy in 1918. Here he was friends with Eduard Bischoff. From 1921 to 1923 he lived and worked on Rügen. In 1924 he was briefly in Berlin, later in Königsberg, where he was friends with Karl Storch the Elder. J. (1899–1991) and Ernst Wiechert. In 1926 he entered the Prussian school service. He completed his probationary year at the Hufengymnasium in Königsberg. In 1927 he came to the secondary school in Pillau as a drawing teacher, where he died at the age of 43.

. Lit: Isbn 9783898761048 a summer on the Baltic Sea .