Holmberg, August, German sculptor and painter (1851-1911). Autograph quotation signed.

Munich, 6. IV. 1909.

Oblong 8vo (postcard). 1 page.

 180.00

Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau: "Anbei den gewünschten Namenszug! Ergebenst [...]".

Appointed director of the Neue Pinakothek in Munich in 1900 and working as conservator at the Alte Pinakothek from 1905, Holmberg created popular still lifes and interiors as well as genre and historical paintings, and was a keen collector of art and antiquities.

Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application.

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