Walter Prescher Van Ed, Ships, Oil on Canvas, 1980s

A stunning seascape with ships. A beautiful impressionistic oil painting. Walter Prescher van ED. The decisive brushstrokes, beautiful palette of colors express the mood and approach of the painter to the painting. The structure of the paint is clearly felt under the fingers. The painting is signed in the lower right corner: WP. van ED. Unframed.

Walter Prescher van Ed (born 6 April 1916 in Dresden, died 11 April 1988 in Ottendorf-Okrilla) was a German painter. He studied at the Academy of Arts in Dresden and was a student of Ewald Karl Max Enderlein and Paul Rosler. In 1948 he received the title of professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin, and then became a full professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden. In 1961 he was a visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts in Nancy. Perscher van Ed was an honorary citizen of Montmarte.

Paris, Prague and Dresden were one of the focal points of his life. He was a cosmopolitan who felt at home in his adopted home, Paris. In Prague he met Oskar Kokoszka, whose master he was and who helped him make his breakthrough. In Paris he had close friendships with great artists whose students he was and whom he also painted with: Fernand Leger, Jacques Villon, Maurice Utrillo, Jean Cocteau, Karel Appel.

His late impressionist paintings made him known at international art exhibitions in New York, Paris, Nancy, Nice, Dresden, Berlin, Munich and Frankfurt. Artprice records 81 sales of his paintings. The painting has several defects (chipped) in the paint structure. In the left part of the painting the canvas is concave - probably from too dry air in which the painting was hanging for a long time.