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Dr Wunsche: Kolonial Wandbilder. No. 6 Tsingtau, Stadt und Hafen. Druck und verlag von Leutart & Schneiderwind, Dresden.
Dr Wunsche: Colonial wall paintings. No. 6 Tsingtau, city and port. Printing and publishing by Leutart & Schneiderwind, Dresden.
Signed lower right, R.Hellgrewe. Mounted on a scroll for display.
A magnificent landscape view of Qingdao (Tsingtao) in northern China at the beginning of the 20th century. The city and harbour appear in the distance.
Rudolf Hellgrewe was regarded as the most famous painter of Germany's colonies. He studied art with Eugen Brachtand and Christian Wilberg at the Berlin Art Academy and specialised in landscape painting.
In 1885 he travelled to East Africa where he painted a number of landscapes. Later he would produce dioramas of life in Germany's colonies for use in schools. He took part in the colonial exhibitions of 1896 and 1907, and was a founding members of the German Colonial Museum in 1899.
In 1903 Hellgrewe did the ceiling paintings for the German Colonial House which was constructed based on the native architecture of the colonies.
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