Aquarelle Berlin street in the rain Poster

Impressionist water colour by Lesser Ury, showing a street in Berlin, Germany, in the mid 1920s, 2 women with umbrellas and classic cars. We enhanced and brightened up the colours, and added a matching border. Lesser Ury (November 7, 1861 – October 18, 1931) was a German Impressionist painter and printmaker. He was born Leo Lesser Ury in Birnbaum, the son of a baker whose death in 1872 was followed by the Ury family's move to Berlin. In 1878 Lesser left school to apprentice with a tradesman, and the next year he went to Düsseldorf to study painting at the Kunstakademie. Ury spent time in Brussels, Paris, Stuttgart, and other locations, before returning to Berlin in 1887. Ury is especially noted for his paintings of nocturnal cafe scenes and rainy streets. He developed a habit of repeating these compositions in order to sell them while retaining the originals, and these quickly made and inferior copies have harmed his reputation. Always introverted and distrustful of people, Ury became increasingly reclusive in his later years. He died in Berlin and is buried in the Jewish Cemetery in Berlin-Weissensee. (source: wikipedia)