German painter (1843-1912). Autograph signature. [Postmark: Berlin]. 07.11.1910. Oblong 8vo (postcard). ¼ page.
$ 193 / 180 €
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Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau. - After an almost four-year sojourn to Rome, Hertel was appointed a teacher at the Berlin Academy in 1875, a position he left in 1877 to work as a freelance painter. His work comprises still lifes, landscapes and genre paintings as well as 13 tempera paintings for the Imperial Staircase in the Berlin cathedral. - Small tear in upper margin; a few small creases; postmark on verso slightly showing through. Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.