Unter den Linden with the Brandenburg Gate Ury Lesser (Birnbaum 1861 - Berlin 1931) Pastel, 35 x 50 cm, sign. lo. le. L. Ury, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - Expert report: Dr. Sibylle Groß, Berlin, 19.7.2011. The pastel will be included in the catalogue raisoné being prepared by Dr. Groß. - Prov.: Private collection Amsterdam until 1981, since then private collection North Germany. - Exh.: Haus der Kunst, Munich, 9.8 - 5.10.1986. - Lit.: It is published in: Joachim Seyppel, 'L.U. der Maler der alten City', 1987, S. 210 as well as in Reimar Zeller, 'Das Automobil in der Kunst', 1986, S. 320.- During the so called 'Gründerzeit', when Berlin flourished in a boom, the Boulevard Unter den Linden developed into the elegant shopping street that became the embodiment of the Golden Twenties. In one of his typical works Ury shows the crowded street in dusk after a shower. - Mus.: Berlin (Nat.-Gal.), Görlitz, Graz. - Lit.: Boetticher, Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Rosenbach 'L. U., das druckgraphische Werk', 2002.