Ernst Vollbehr - Artist Info

About Ernst Vollbehr

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    Ernst Vollbehr (1876-1960)

    He was born in Kiel in 1876 and studied painting at various academies in Germany. A born traveler, Vollbehr painted scenes during his many journeys to such countries as Albania, Brazil, German West-Africa, Cameroon and Togoland. After World War I, he continued painting in what where then far-away and exotic lands such as India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Hawaii, California and many others.

    In 1905 he worked for the well-known German artistic magazine Jugend. DuringWorld War I he produced some 1200 war related paintings and watercolors, a number of which were published in a 1915 edition of his war-diary. This finely printed album contains many color reproductions o...

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