Georg Hinz Altona 1630-1687 Hamburg

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

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Description

Georg Hinz
Still Life with an Elaborately Sculpted Urn and Blue and White Porcelain Bowls with Fruit
oil on canvas

Provenance

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, November 22, 1973, lot 67;
With Silvano Lodi, Campione d'Italia.

Exhibited

New York, Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts, The Affordable Face and Other Recent Acquisitions, 2002, no. 18.

Literature

K. Bastian, Georg Hinz und sein Stillbenwerk, Hamburg 1984 (published dissertation), p. 259, no. 17, reproduced.

Catalogue Note

Little is known about Hinz's artistic career. He was born in the town of Altona and later moved to Hamburg where he is recorded as a still life painter. He traveled to Leipzig and returned to Hamburg where he became an independent master in 1682.