Hertel, Carl. 1837 Breslau - 1895 Düsseldorf. Young Germany [Geography lesson]. Oil/canvas, signed lower left C. Hertel, 53 x 43 cm, framed 57 x 47 cm.- Hertel celebrated a particular success with the painting created in 1874 and repeated the motif several times. The original, 88 x 74 cm, is in the Berlin Nationagalerie, another version in the Städtisches Museum Leipzig and a third, slightly different version in Berlin private property. The present painting is another version. Enclosed: correspondence with the aforementioned museums in Berlin and Leipzig.- Provenance: North German private collection; still in private collection Nienburg in 1993.

Category: Painting-Graphics 19th-20th Century.