Ernst ferdinand oehme biography of michael
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Nazi-Looted Ernst Ferdinand Oehme Artworks Restituted Essay Jewish Heirs
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Berolzheimer’s stepson Waldemar Schweisheimer began looking disclose the missing works nearly immediately funds World Hostilities II. Elegance recovered a
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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme – Hohnstein Castle in Saxon Switzerland
(Heinrich Heine)
This painting by a German Romantic painter Ernst Ferdinand Oehme looks so dreamlike and unreal that one would assume it is a mirage or a scene from one’s reverie, but no, it indeed shows a real castle splendidly situated on the top of the hill, vast woodland bellow it and only sky stretching on and on above it. The castle seems dream-like, and yet its forms are vividly clear and tangible. Towers and roofs stand out clear and sharp against the dreamy yellow dusk sky tinged with lavender and soft blue. The Hohnstein castle is stretched playfully over the huge rocks and the scene looks like something out of a fairy tale. One can easily fall into wild and romantical reveries about knights, damsels and troubadours. The fairy tale beauty of the castle contrasts with the rugged, raw beauty of the large rocks; man’s made architecture meets the untamed beauty of nature. In March 1825 The Crown Prince Friedrich August of Saxony informed the painter that he had bought a little property near Dresden
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A Portal of a Church
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Title:A Portal of a Church
Artist:Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (German, Dresden 1797–1855 Dresden)
Date:1820s
Medium:Watercolor and brown ink, heightened with white opaque watercolor, on wove paper
Dimensions:sheet: 12 5/8 x 10 5/8 in. (32 x 27 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Harry G. Sperling Fund, 2006
Object Number:2006.336
Signature: In brush and red gouache, lower right corner: E. Oehme
Inscription: Tombstone on lower left inscribed in pen and brown ink, Hin geht die Zeit / Her kommt der Tod (Time passes / Death comes).
Annotated in graphite, lower left verso: Ernst Oehme gest. in Dresden.
Marking: Collector's stamp of Paul Arndt in black ink, lower left verso: P.A. (Lugt Suppl. 2067b).
Paul Arndt (German); Rudolph Ferdinand Hintze (German); Karl & Faber, November 29, 2005, lot 213; Vendor: Katrin Bellinger Kunsthandel , Munich
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," October 20, 2008–January 11, 2009.
Deutsche Romantiker Exh. cat. Stettin, 1936.