Peter Josef Karl Hubert Kreuzberg was born on 30 May 1888 in Ahrweiler and became a German painter closely associated with the artistic life of the Eifel region. He settled in Schalkenmehren in the Eifel in 1914, where the volcanic landscape and rural surroundings shaped the subjects and atmosphere of his work. Kreuzberg maintained contact with Gert Wollheim and with artists connected to the Düsseldorf group Das Junge Rheinland, a circle that introduced him to contemporary developments in German modernism and strengthened his ties to the Rhineland’s artistic networks.

Kreuzberg’s painting developed within the expressive tendencies of the early twentieth century, drawing on regional motifs and the distinctive character of the Eifel’...