STURM George
THE PELICANS
Watercolour, gouache and pencil on paper: 30.5 x 46 cm / 12 x 18.1 ins
Signed lower left
Painter of genre scenes and animals.
George Sturm trained under his father, Friedrich Sturm, and Ferdinand Laufberger at the art school in Vienna, before enrolling at the art school in Amsterdam in 1882. He mostly worked in Holland.
Several of his works can be seen in the wedding room of the Utrecht town hall and at the Utrecht University.
Period:
Vienna 1855 - Wageningen 1923
Austrian School
Exhibitions:
Utrecht
Literature:
E. Bénézit, "Dictionary of Artists", Paris 2006, Vol. 13, p. 488.
U. Thieme & F. Becker, "Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler; von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart", Leipzig 1978, Vol. 32, p. 253-254.