Otto Press, Near Berneichen In The Neumark Winter Ludwig was 21

Ludwig was 21

where he would later become a professor

Wallace Stewart has rendered the pier as it was in around 1888 and several photographs from the period reference this form exactly

wearing a lace collar

Otto Press, Near Berneichen In The Neumark Winter Ludwig was 21This mid 19th century oil painting by German artist Otto Press (1838 1889) depicts a broad river moving slowly through a summer landscape under a rising moon, its pale light breaking softly through drifting cloud and laying a silver path across the water. Trees mass quietly along the banks, their forms half absorbed by shadow, while a modest house sits back from the rivers edge, partially concealed by foliage. Painted in 1865, the work belongs to the