Albert Spethmann - Women Bathing in a Dark Forest-Oil Painting

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Albert Spethmann - Women bathing in a dark Forest-Oil painting

German impressionist -Oil painting on canvas -Signed and dated 1915

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German impressionist -Oil painting on canvas -Signed and dated 1915

Frame size 16 x 14"
canvas size 12 x 10"

Artist biography
Albert Spethmann (1894 - 1986) was active/lived in Germany.He is known for Painting; landscape; figure.
Albert Spethmann was born in 1894 in Hamburg. He was a pupil of the arts school Altona and the KA Düsseldorf and Munich. Spethmann was a landscape and figure painter active in Munich and Bad Tölz.
Spethmann was the son of a woodcarver from Altona. His brothers were the sculptor Heinrich Spethmann (* 1885) and the painter and sculptor Karl Spethmann (1888–1944). After attending the Altona School of Applied Arts, Spethmann went to the Düsseldorf Art Academy . There was Willy Spatz his teacher. On October 31, 1913, he enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the field of painting. He attended Hugo von Habermann's master studio and then worked as a freelance painter. In 1921 he and his wife Marie Hobmeier, whom he had met in Dietramszell in 1920, moved into a house on Austraße inBad Tölz , where he lived for 65 years. In 1950 he became a member of the Munich Artists' Cooperative , and in 1971 an honorary member. Spethmann was committed to realistic , naturalistic and late impressionistic painting. He was best known for motifs of the Isarwinkel and the Loisach valley . He painted views of Bad Tölz, sprawling cottage gardens around Hechenberg , old workshops or farms, as well as portraits of locals. In 1917 he made his debut in an exhibition at the Glaspalast in Munich . He was represented at the Great German Art Exhibition in 1942 with the landscape painting Jurafelsen .

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