Description
Oil, canvas; 40 x 50 cm
Signed l.d.: E. Kampf
Asking price 2800
Estimate 4000 - 4500
Auction 213, 25.06.2022
Eugen KAMPF
1861 Aachen - 1933 Düsseldorf
German landscape painter from the Düsseldorf school, specializing in rural scenes. His father August, brother Arthur and son Ari Walter were also painters. Between 1878 and 1880 he took his first lessons at the Artesis Hogeschool in Antwerp, and then at the Düsseldorf Academy, where he was a pupil of Eugen Dücker. He completed his studies in 1884 at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. In 1889, he returned to Düsseldorf. He was co-founder of the "Lucas-Club," an association of progressive landscape painters. He ran a school for women. In 1908 he became a professor. painted landscapes of the lower Rhine and Flanders in a naturalistic-impressionistic style, with impasto textures. He depicted scenes of simple village life. His favorite season was the lyrically framed summer cloudy evening.
