Recueil de poèmes en hommage aux deux auteurs
Les pyramides de Gizeh, humeur du matin
Enfin à Hambourg, lors d’une vente d’art et d’antiquités le 10 mai, la maison allemande Stahl proposera une belle huile sur toile d’Ernst Koerner intitulée « les pyramides de Gizeh, humeur du matin » pour une estimation de 19 000 € (Lot 424)
Koerner Ernst ( Stibbe/Westpr. 1846_Berlin 1927 )
The Pyramids of Gizeh, Morning Mood
Oil/canvas, 101 x 152 cm, lo. le. sign. a. dat. Ernst Koerner 1887, on the stretcher on artists label titled Die Pyramiden von Gizeh, Morgenstimmung, dam.
- German landscape a. architecture painter, one of the main exponents of the Berlin school. K. was taught painting by H. Eschke, C. Steffeck a. G. Biermann.
He travelled extensively in Europe before going repeatedly to Egypt, Palestine a. Konstantinopel since 1873.
He specialized in oriental subjects, mainly from Egypt which were among his greatest successes.
His art is unsurpassed in depicting the most subtle differences of weather a. mood. In 1894 he became professor in Berlin.
He won many important prizes in exhibitions all over the world.
- Mus.: Königsberg, Breslau, Stettin, Birmingham, Oran, New York a. others.
- Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Vollmer a. others.