This is a fine vintage woodcut by Oscar Droege. It shows a winter landscape - with a frozen seashore to the foreground and in the distance there are glaciers or icy mountain peaks.
It is signed in pencil to the lower right: Oscar Droege and in the lower left with the title: Breakers. The breakers referred to in the title are the dark silhouettes of the higgly-piggly jetty posts seen in the distance.
Image size: 29 x 54.5. The frame size is 53 x 69 cm.
SHORT BIOGRAPHY: Paul (Oskar) Droege was a German printmaker and painter. He was born in Hamburg in 1898. Droege served as a soldier in the German army in WWI and served in France and Russia. After the war he studied at the Darmstadt Artist’s Colony and the Dusseldorf Academy. In the early 1920s he started to produced colour woodcuts. With his friend, the artist Wener Lange, he travelled by bicycle through Germany, France and Scandinavia looking for subject matter.
Droege was called up again to serve in the German army in WWII. At the end of the War he was released from Russian captivity. In the 1950s he returned to his travels moving from Switzerland to Paris. In the 1960s he returned to painting with watercolour and moved back to Hamburg – where he died in 1983.
In the 1920s he started to make these stylish woodcuts of northern German landscapes. He preferred to show more misty scenes at twilight - and with more cropped, almost "snapshot" images. This woodcut featuring a seascape and frozen wilderness is more unusual in his oeuvre and these do not come on the market that often.
This fine colour woodcut by Droege is in good condition. It is being sold with a new window mount and quality frame. It is ready for you to hang straight onto your wall.
I have taken lots of images for your inspection - plus ones when we had it out of the frame. It has not been laid down and you can see the ink (as expected on an original colour woodcut) coming through the paper onto the sheet at the back.
UK Postage Only. It will be sent to you with Parcelforce24 postage. It is a large work and the frame is a substantial one. This will cost £24.95 and applied to your order at the checkout.