Georg Gelbke - 3 FARBRADIERUNGEN

Georg Gelbke 1882 Rochlitz - 1947 Dresden.
Three graphics, color etching - drypoint on laid paper.
Approx. 16 x 12 cm, signed in pencil, dated 1917 - 1929.
Very good condition .

Georg Hermann Gelbke, September 12, 1882 in Rochlitz, Saxony - March 17, 1947 in Dresden
was a Saxon painter and graphic artist who worked a lot in East Prussia.

Georg Gelbke came from a patriarchal family of doctors and studied at the Dresden Art Academy, where he also met Richard Birnstengel, with whom he had a lot in common. His study trips took him to Bohemia, Paris, Corsica and Dalmatia. An art-loving estate manager near Dresden had his daughters taught by Birnstengel and Gelbke how to draw, with the result that they both married one of the daughters and were related by marriage. Their studios were next door to each other in a house near Dresden Central Station.

After 1930, Gelbke visited Nidden several times, where Birnstengel had a house and the two of them created works together, especially winter pictures of the Curonian landscape. He found his favorite motifs in the fishing villages on the spit. Some of these paintings can now be found in the archives of the Kulturhistorisches Museum of the Hanseatic City of Stralsund, the other part is in private ownership.

Georg Gelbke was a member of the German Association of Artists.
Text WIKIPEDIA.