Oil/artist's board. 25,5 x 37 cm. Lo. ri. monogr. W.L., on the backing cardboard labels of Kunst-Salon Litauer, Munich as well as label of the collection Wilhelm Hack, Köln. - Expertise: Heinz Holtmann confirms the authenticity - Provenance: Kunst-Salon Litauer, Munich; Galerie Aloys Faust, Cologne, where bought by Wilhelm Hack, founder of the Wilhelm Hack Museum in Ludwigshafen; at last private collection Rhineland - German painter and graphic artist. Being expelled from the Berlin academy by A. von Werner for lack of talent he took lessons with H. Eschke a. H. Gude. L. was co-founder of the avantgardist artist's group 'Die XI' a. one of the main exponents of the Berlin secession. Mus.: Berlin (Nat. Gall.), Munich, Dresden, Leipzig a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit M. Bröhan, W.L., Maler der Berliner Landschaft, 1988 a. others.