"Predchuvstvie" is the original title.

(1900 Priess b. Kiel - 1984 Schleswig) "Premonition". Original title. Created with a fierce, broad brushstroke, this painting depicts a beach landscape with nude women and a pensive man. It is part of a series of beach paintings created in 1966. Gotch, who was influenced by the artists of "Brücke" and Edvard Munch, studied at the Dresden Academy in 1920 and was a master student of Oskar Kokoschka from 1921 to 1923. During the Third Reich, Gotch was recognized as one of the persecuted modernists, and his studio and nearly all of his work were destroyed in Berlin. In 1945/46, he founded an art school and a branch of "Baukreis" in Sankt-Peter-Ording, where he also taught until its closure in 1951. In 1962, Gotch received the Villa-Romana Prize in Florence, and in 1967, he was a guest of honor at the Villa-Massimo in Rome. Oil on canvas. Signed and titled on the reverse, with the artist's monogram and date "F.K. Gotch Premonition (1932) Repetition 1966". 95 cm x 95 cm. In frame. Included in the catalog raisonné by Geritz/Leuba, number 767.