Oil/canvas, 70 x 110,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. Cla Bergen, on the stretcher titled 'Im Atlantik', min. rest. - Gemran marine painter. B. studied at the Munich Acadamy under von Marr. He travelled England and the A; until the outbreak of WW I he worked repeatedly in Polperro in Cornwall. He is most renowned for his military marine paintings and won numero awards. In 1982 his works were shown in 1982 a retrospective exhibition at the Deutsches Schiffahrtsmeum Bremerhaven. M.: Munich, Wuppertal, Nuremberg, London. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Jensen: Kiel und die See, Hormann/Kliem: C. B. - Marinemaler über vier Epochen.