BERNARD-CHRISTIAN BORCHET

"INCANTATION"

WATERCOLOR, SIGNED

LATVIAN-GERMAN, C.1900

23.5 X 17 INCHES

Bernhard Borchert

1863 –1945

Borchert was a Baltic-German artist who spent the greatest part of his life in Latvia.


He has worked in the field of painting and has produced book and magazine illustrations.He was the author of the "Baltic artists’ painting exhibition" (Baltijas makslinieku gleznu izstade).


This represents the German school to which he added the reservedness so characteristic to the mentality of Baltics.