Oil/canvas. 77 x 96,5 cm. Lo. le. sign. Fr. Schwinge Hambg. Zustand Small pigment losses. - Hamburg landscape painter, famous for his motifs from Hamburg and the Lüneburg heath. S. studied at the Düsseldorf academy under P. Janssen and E. Dücker. His most important commissions were paintings for the steamship König Friedrich August of the Hamburg-Süd Shipping company. Mus.: Hamburg (Altonaer Mus.), Braunschweig, Lüneburg. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Der Neue Rump, Heydorn a. others.