ERICH [Ernst Karl] MAYER
German/South African
1876-1960

Die Auasberge von süden gesehen
[ The Auas mountains seen from the south]

Watercolours over graphite on paper. Signed and dated Erich Mayer 1909 Aris, D.S.W.Afr. (Bottom Right)

A fine early watercolour by one of the countries greatest painters, which captures the essence of the landscape of German South West Africa just after the Boer war. The rutted dirt road leads through the scrub of the veldt and the pass toward Windhoek near Aris post office, (which opened in Sept 1907) beyond which, rise the purple hills of the Auas Mountains. At the left is a marker or mile stone. In all a charming and well painted landscape.

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