Paul Riess

Riess, Paul

German painter (1857-1933). Autograph quotation signed. Dessau. 10.09.1917. Oblong 8vo (postcard). 1 page.
$ 197 / 180 € (84641/BN55149)

Cleverly inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau: "Auch meine Bilder aus Mecklenburg enthalten mein Autogramm [...]". - A prominent landscape painter, Riess frequently travelled Germany and Holland, spent the summer of 1888 in the Dachau artists' colony practicing plein air painting, and was awarded a silver medal in London in 1889. - Traces of a postmark; small ink spots. Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.

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