Otto Wolf-Oschatz, Die Flucht des Lot

Otto Wolf-Oschatz, Die Flucht des Lot
Otto Wolf-Oschatz, The Flight of Lot
Angels prophesied to Lot that he should leave the city of Sodom, as it is being destroyed and he is not allowed to turn around on the flight, however, to the burning city, when his wife does not keep to the commandment and turns around, she instantly freezes to a pillar of salt, minimally impasto painting, oil on linen-laminated board, c. 1910, signed lower left "O. Wolf-Oschatz" (only visible under UV light), framed, folding dimensions approx. 33 x 41 cm. Artist info: Otto Friedrich Wolf, German painter (1855 Oschatz). Painter (1855 Oschatz to 1940 Munich), from 1869 briefly active as a flower painter at the Meissen porcelain manufactory, studied at the academy in Dresden with Ferdinand Wilhelm Pauwels, from 1879 in Paris and studied with William Adolphe Bouguereau, from 1882 studied at the academy of arts in Munich with Ludwig von Löfftz, founding member of the NSDAP, Source: Thieme-Becker, Bruckmann "Münchner Malerei des 19. Jh.", Matrikeln der Münchner Akademie and Wikipedia.