The Tower Bridge in London

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Oil on cardboard. Signed ,Peter Hirsch München' and inscribed verso ,Die Tower Brücke in London 1930'. View of the Tower Bridge in London. Oil on cardboard. Signed in the lower left corner 'Peter Hirsch München' and inscribed 'The Tower Bridge in London 1930' on the reverse side. The expressive image shows the Tower Bridge in London with boats in the foreground on the river Thames. The picture contains impressionistic as well as expressionistic elements typical of Peter Hirsch's work. As a pupil of Peter von Halm and Carl von Marr in Munich, he established himself successfully as a painter in the Munich society, but received in the 30s, when classified as "degenerate", an exhibition ban. Between 1934 and 1940 he was able to accept assignments from abroad and worked among others countries also in the Unites States.