Burger-Willing, W.H. - Wilhelm Heinrich Burger... Lot 2082

Burger-Willing, W.H. - Wilhelm Heinrich Burger 1882 in Kalk, today Cologne - 1966 in Untermaubach in the Rur valley, also Willi Hans Burger-Willing, "Das Weinfelder Maar in der Eifel", oil on canvas, strong, impasto application of paint, use of dark earth and natural tones, large farmhouse with trees and water, in the foreground is a barge on the shore. The Weinfelder Maar, also known as the Totenmaar, was created by a volcanic steam explosion and is a landscape with a lake in the middle, next to which is a cemetery with a chapel, which gave rise to the landscape's nickname 'Totenmaar'. signed lower left, inscribed and titled on adhesive label verso, approx. 70x88 cm, minimal signs of age, frame bumped, approx. 84x103 cm. German painter, from 1908 to 1910 he studied as a scholarship holder at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art, until 1914 he was a master student of Professor Carl Ederer and Professor Eduard von Gebhardt, in 1935 the painter settled in Untermaubach near Düren. In the years that followed, he exhibited extensively, including at the Great German Art Exhibition in Munich in 1941 and at the Suermondt Museum in Aachen in 1949.