Changeful Sailors: The Art of Sandrok

(1867 Neumarkt/Silesia - 1945 Berlin) Restless Sailors with Two Cargo Tugboats. An impressionistic harbor scene typical of Sandrock's motif and style, who participated annually in the Great Berlin Art Exhibitions from 1898. Renowned art critic Max Osborn praised Sandrock in 1912 as "one of the strongest and most promising talents of the Berlin painters' guild" and lauded his vigorous style. Sandrock was particularly fascinated by the maritime world. Oil on canvas; signed; 34 cm x 49 cm. Framed. Literature: Dorothee von Hülsen (1994), G 280. Oil on canvas. Signed. Listed in the catalogue raisonné.