Beautiful large format engraving of a dutch man with a pipe walking his draft horse along the edge of a canal. Windmill and sailboat in the background.
Signed F.B. and dated [18]97 in the upper right hand corner.
Franz Wilhelm Gehri
(April 15 1882, Seedorf (BE) – February 18, 1960, Hasliberg)
The painter and engraver Franz Gehri was the son of the Münchenbuchsee artist Karl Gehri and studied at the Art Academy of Munich and with the famous engraver Peter Halm.
This engraving entitled “Zur Erinnerung an den Kunsthallebazar Bern” – commemorates the Art Bazar of [...]