ERNST EITNER (1867-1955). Felder im Gewitter.

Ernst Eitner (1867-1955), Felder im Gewitter, oil on canvas, laid on cardboard, signed upper left, inscribed on the reverse on the cardboard at the lower edge with the estate catalogue no. '3644', approx. 26.5 x 36 cm, with frame approx. 36.5 x 46 cm.

PROVENANCE: Private collection Lower Saxony by inheritance, previously private collection Hamburg, acquired likely in the late 1990s.

Ernst Eitner was a founding member of the Hamburg Artists' Club, established in 1897, an association of young artists who, following the example of the French Impressionists, wanted to establish plein air painting in Northern Germany. Encouraged by the director of the Hamburger Kunsthalle, Alfred Lichtwark, the young artists attempted to make local subjects more popular again. At the end of the 19th century, Eitner's paintings were still referred to as 'daubs'. Later, the artist was celebrated as the 'Monet of the North'. With his impressionist paintings, Eitner is considered one of the main representatives of artistic renewal in Hamburg. In 2017, the Jenisch-Haus in Hamburg held a major retrospective on the occasion of the artist's 150th birthday. Works by Eitner are held in, among others, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Altonaer Museum, the Schleswig-Holstein State Museum at Gottorf Castle, and many others.