Rolf Böhlig, Expressive River Landscape, 1973, Oil Painting

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Rolf Böhlig

1904 Hamburg – 1979 ibid.

North German townscape/village view by a river

Signed and dated lower left (1973)

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1904 Hamburg – 1979 ibid.

North German townscape/village view by a river

Signed and dated lower left (1973)

Oil on hardboard, framed

Size: 42 x 39.8 cm (unframed) / 56.5 x 54.6 cm (framed)

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Rolf Böhlig

Painter, (press) illustrator

1919-22 Apprenticeship as a photogravure printer

1922-27 Studies at the Hamburg School of Applied Arts (under Julius Wohlers, Hugo Meier-Thur), where he met, among others, Karl August Ohrt, Walter Siebelist, and Hans Hausfeldt
During his studies, Böhlig worked at sea as a mess steward and trimmer, traveling to Central America, the Mediterranean, the Netherlands, and England
1926 Study trip to southern France and Spain
Early 1930s Trip to the Netherlands and England

In 1932, he traveled to southern France and Denmark on a scholarship from the Amsinck Foundation, which continued to support him in subsequent years

1927-31 He ran an advertising studio in Hamburg (Schürbeker Straße) together with Walter Siebelist
1930-39 Worked as a press illustrator for the Hamburger Anzeiger
1934-36 He spent a short time in Berlin Resident
until 1945 military service
until 1952 he worked as a teacher at the Hamburg Master School for Fashion
1951-69 teaching at the Vocational School for Advertising (Altona)
1969 retirement and from then on devoted himself increasingly to painting

Memberships:
Hamburg Artists' Association
Professional Association of Visual Artists

Collections:
Kunsthalle Hamburg
Altonaer Museum, Hamburg
Hamburg Cultural Authority
Collection of the HSH Nordbank
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