Kurt Hassenkamp artwork • painting • previously for sale A street artist at night, Berlin

The artist Kurt Hassenkamp, who died young, painted genre scenes and coastal views with fishermen and ships in a smooth impressionist style. He lived and worked in Berlin, attended the academy and received painting lessons from the marine and landscape painter Carl Saltzmann. Between 1911 and 1917, the painter caused a furore with his work at the Annual Grosze Ausstellung in Berlin and in 1912 at the Annual Exhibition in the Glaspalast in Munich.