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    Artist

  • Wilckens, August, 1870-1939

    • Title

  • [Portrait of Gustav Hess]

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 30.5" x 25.25" ; 78 x 65 cm +, frame (35" x 29.5")

  • Place of Publication

    early 20th century.

  • Notes

    Signed in lower right.

  • Summary

    Painting depicts Gustav Hess seated in front of a dark wooden interior. Hess wears a black suit with a bow tie and a waistcoat, which has a chain wrapped around one of the buttons (possibly a pocket watch).

  • Depicted

    Hess, Gustav

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Albert G. Hess Family Collection, AR 25706

  • Accession Number

  • URL

Biographical/Historical Information

Gustav Hess was born December 4, 1862 in Bernburg, Duchy of Anhalt-Bernburg. As a young man, Hess served in the Imperial German Army.

Hess was a chemist and, in 1895, he founded the paint factory Chemische Fabrik Gustav Hess in Pirna, a town along the Elbe River in Saxony. Gustav Hess was the father of Albert G. Hess (1909-1993), Ilse Roston (Rosenstern) (1897-1985), and Manfred Hess (1898-1980). He died March 11, 1923 in Pirna. This portrait was owned by his son, Albert G. Hess, and it was likely painted in Dresden.

Further information: https://www.gedenkplaetze.info/juedische-geschichte/familie-hess

August Wilckens (1870-1939) was a German painter. He studied and worked in Germany and in Denmark. Wilckens was especially known for painting genre and landscape scenes from the Danish area of Fanø.

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Wilckens, August: [Portrait of Gustav Hess], Leo Baeck Institute, 2017.24.