Masterfully landscape study by Paul Mishel ( 1862 in Danzig/Gdansk - 1929 in Fang locks near Berlin). Due to the author´s title this work depicts landscape near Gdingen, the former name of the West Prussian port in Gdansk lagoon (today Polish port Gdynia).

Paul Mishel was a master student of the landscape painter Eugen Bracht. Mishel´s painting could not be assigned to any particular style. On his travels across Germany, but also to Britain, Sweden and Norway, he collected the motives for his works. From about 1890 he lived in Friedrichshagen, then a place near the city Cöpenick east of Berlin (today a district of Berlin´s district Treptow-Köpenick). His friends included, among others, the members of the Friedrichshagener poetry circle around Wilhelm Bölsche and Bruno Wille. In 1929, Mishel became ill. During a recovery stay in the nearby Fangschleuse Mishel died as a result of a stroke.Paul Mishel is one of the almost forgotten German painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Literature: On-line Wikipedia; Detlef Lorenz: Artist traces in Berlin from the Baroque to the present day: a guide to living, working and memorial sites of visual artists. Reimer, Berlin 2002.

Inscription: titled, dated and signed lower left: " Gdingen Aug.(18)85, P.Mishel".

Technique: framed oil on paper.

Measurements: unframed w 3 3/4" x h 4 1/4" (9,5 x 10,8 cm cm),matted and framed w 9 7/8 x h 12 1/4"(25 x 31 cm) .

Condition: in very good condition.