Waterfalls in Central Africa

Details

Rudolph Francke (German, b. 1860)
Waterfalls in Central Africa
signed and dated 'Rüd. Franke./98.' (lower right)
oil on canvas laid down on plywood
75 x 100.5 cm.

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Lot Essay

Painter, illustrator and sculptor. Pupil of the Berlin Academy, he exhibited his portraits with this institution in the 1880s and 1890s. Amongst his sculptures, is the figure of a Yao, an ethnic group living in Tanzania, then German East Africa. Francke also did drawings of this territory.

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