Workers in Paris, 1926 Watercolor on paper – by Otto Thamer

Description

A beautiful German modernist watercolor painting from artist Otto Thamer (1892-1975). The image depicts a team of workingmen loading grain onto a barge in the Seine River at Paris and is painted in the Neue Sachlichkeit style prevalent in German art of the Wiemar period. The painting is hand signed and dated 1926 Paris in the lower right, it is titled in the left corner landarbeiter auf Seiner (farmhands on the Seine). Good sized, the image measures 20 x 13 1/2 inches, with mat and frame the outside dimensions are 26 x 19 inches and it is its original German frame with the stamp of a Hamburg framer on the reverse. The painting shows mild and even age toning to the paper and a tiny tear across the date, otherwise it is in excellent condition. Frame has numerous surface losses and needs touching up.

Otto Thämer (1892-1975) was Hamburg based German landscape and marine painter, noted for watercolors, oils and frescoes as well as etchings. Thamer studied at the School of Applied Arts in Altona and the Berlin Applied Arts Museum, he also trained at the Academy in Munich under Wahler and Diez. During 1924-1925, he had an extended study at the Academy in Rome to learn fresco technique and spent 1926 in Paris working in the studios of Vasily Schuchajeff and Roger Bissière. Thamer became a member of the Altona Artists Association and of the art group, De terp , he is written up in Vollmer; Thieme-Becker; and Benezit.