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Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. Wilhelm Hambüchen (8 August 1869 - 5 September 1939) was a German painter. He often painted in the North Sea area and specialized in beach and seascapes. Hambüchen attended the Kunstgewerbeschule in Düsseldorf and began his career as a decorative and theater painter. From 1895 he started working as an independent artist, initially as a landscape painter. In 1898 he traveled to the Belgian coast with fellow painter George Hacker and since then has specialized in beach and seascapes. Until the First World War, you would return to the North Sea coast every summer. In 1898 he was in Walcheren with his friend Max Clarenbach. In any case, in 1905, 1906 and 1908 he worked in Katwijk aan Zee and then regularly in Nieuwpoort until 1914.
Hambüchen belongs to the Düsseldorfer Schule and painted in an impressionistic style. With broad and loose brushstrokes he painted the barges, the beach with large clouds and the fishing population in the surf after the catch. The influence of Hendrik Willem Mesdag and thus of the Hague School is clearly recognisable.
Hambüchen's son Georg also became a painter. He died in 1939 at the age of 70. His work is in the possession of the Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf and the Katwijks Museum.
The offered painting shows a beautiful beach view with a bomb barge in Katwijk. The painting is in good condition and framed in a wooden frame.
Canvas dimensions: 59 x 79 cm
The work comes from a private collection of a leading art collector.
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