Marine painting — Kunst-Auktion
Antonio Nicolo Gasparo Jacobsen was a Danish-born American maritime artist known as the "Audubon of Steam Vessels".
The public rooms of The Griswold Inn in Essex, Connecticut, the oldest continuously run tavern in the United States, features the largest privately held collection of Jacobsen's paintings.
Roger Chapelet, full name Albert Roger Édouard Chapelet, was a French marine painter.
Chapelet worked in the Navy Ministry, in 1927 he began painting, and in 1936 he was appointed an official marine painter and became a member of the Naval Academy. During and after World War II, Chapelet took part in numerous operations of the French Navy. During his service, he continued to paint various military operations and naval battles. After the war, he returned to civilian life and became an artist for several ship companies.
Chapelet is considered one of the greatest artists of the French Navy of the 20th century.
Claus Friedrich Bergen was a German painter of the first half of the twentieth century. He is known as a marine painter and illustrator.
Claus Bergen illustrated Karl May's adventure tales early in his career, creating more than 450 works. He specialized in nautical subjects, depictions of fishing and coastal landscapes, and traveled to Norway, England, the Mediterranean and America. During World War I, Bergen created paintings depicting sea battles; he was the only artist of his time to participate in a submarine raid. In World War II, he was included by the Nazis in the "God-given list" and his work was exhibited in Nazi exhibitions in Munich from 1937 to 1944.
