Gerard Johan Staller artwork • watercolour • drawing • previously for sale A couple, fishing in a rowing boat
Gerard Johan Staller
Amsterdam 1880-1956
1880-1956
A couple, fishing in a rowing boat
watercolour on paper 22.4 x 29.9 cm, signed l.r. and dated 1923
This work on paper was previously for sale.
Provenance: familie van de schilder.
G.J. Staller was born in Amsterdam in 1880 and lived and worked in this city for most of his life. He received his education at the Rijksakademie in the capital, after which he mainly painted Amsterdam cityscapes and folk scenes in the Jewish neighborhood around Waterlooplein and the Jordaan. Staller was therefore called the painter of Amsterdam Jewish folk life.
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