Oil on cardboard, signed, inscribed, and dated in the lower right corner: “P. Linke 89 Abu Simbel.”
Dimensions with frame: 45x58 cm (35x49 cm)
Paul Linke (Wrocław 1844 – 1917 Wrocław) – painter; he initially worked as a locksmith. From 1868, he lived in Berlin, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1869 to 1872 under J. Schrader, K. Pfannschmidt, A. Eybla, and F. Bellermann. After completing his studies, he settled in Wrocław. At that time, he painted portraits, genre paintings, historical works, and religious works. From the early 1870s, he traveled extensively, painting numerous landscapes, landscape studies, and botanical studies. His paintings and drawings are held, among other places, in Polish museum collections—in Warsaw, Jelenia Góra, and Wrocław. In 1997, a large body of the artist’s work was presented at an exhibition at the National Museums in Wrocław and Warsaw (see: P. Łukaszewicz, A. Kozak, *Images of Nature. Adolf Dressler and Silesian Landscape Painters of the Second Half of the 19th Century, National Museum in Wrocław, National Museum in Warsaw, Wrocław 1997, p. 117, cat. nos. 153–162).
