Richard Birnstengel (1881 Dresden - 1968 ibid.) Portrait of a fisherman's girl with sunflowers in front of the Baltic Sea dunes near Nidden Painted in the style of New Objectivity, probably created in the 1930s by Birnstengel, who studied at the Dresden Academy under Oskar Zwintscher and Gotthardt Kuehl from 1901 to 1909. After the I. After the First World War, he travelled to Nidden and joined the artists' colony where Max Pechstein and Karl Schmitt-Rottluff had previously worked. Birnstengel stayed there regularly from 1930 to 1944 and even built a house there in 1939. Nidden and the Baltic Sea remained a theme in Birnstengel's oeuvre even after 1945. Watercolour/paper. Signed lower right; 55 cm x 38.5 cm (mat opening). Frame. Watercolour on paper. Signed.