Arthur Siebelist (Loschwitz/Dresden 1870 - Hittfeld/Hamburg 1945). Landscape.

Oil/cardboard, 33 x 44 cm, lo. ri. sign. A. Siebelist. - Post-impressionist plein-air painter. S. studied 1890 at the Munich school of applied arts, followed by study trips to Florence, Rome, Paris, London and Amsterdam. He settled in Hamburg where he was co-founder of the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub in 1897. The artist's colony in Hittfeld, founded by S. in 1902, shaped a whole generation of Hamburg artists; among his pupils where A. Rée, F. Nölken, F. Ahlers-Hestermann and F. Friedrichs. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Museum) a. others. Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Heydorn, C. Meyer-Tönnesmann: Der Hamburgische Künstlerclub von 1897, Meyer-Tönnesmann: Arthur Siebelist: Maler, Sportler, Kunsterzieher, Ausst.-Kat., Hamburg 2008; Meyer-Tönnesmann: Zwischen Hamburg und Paris. Die Siebelist-Schüler, exh. cat., 2009.