Demmin E. «Vedutta»

«Vedutta»

Author: Demmin Erich (1911-1997)

Oil on canvas. 34 x 50 cm

Demmin Erich (1911-1997) - was a German landscape painter, graphic artist and restorer. From 1931 to 1939 he studied at the School for Free and Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg with Max Kutschmann, with the landscape painter Ludwig Bartning (1876-1956) and the church painter and restorer Paul Thol (1887-1956). From 1949 to 1955, under Hinnerk Scheper, he was involved in the restoration of the Knobelsdorff wing at Charlottenburg Palace and the staircase at Klein-Glienicke Palace. At the end of the 1950s he turned more to freelance landscape and vedute painting, he was a member of the Havelländische painter colony. Long study trips took him to Italy, Spain, Portugal and Holland. The motifs of his works come from these trips, but also from his Mecklenburg homeland and the Baltic Sea. In 1965 he turned down an appointment as a lecturer at the master school for graphics and book trade in Berlin.