Coastal Dunes (attributed), Albert Gert (20th c.), c. 1970s, impasto oil, 36 x 24 in, signed lower right.
A luminous coastal dune seascape by Albert Gert, built with confident impasto and palette-knife structure: wind-cut sand, marram grass, and a calm Atlantic horizon with a beached skiff. The composition balances airy sky gradients with rugged, tactile foreground passages—an ideal statement work for coastal, Hamptons, Cape, and modern organic interiors. Signed lower right; 36 x 24 inches; impressionist-realism / postwar decorative modern seascape.
Artwork Description
This painting stages a quiet shoreline passage between dunes: a shallow, sandy run-out leads the eye past a small beached boat toward a broad, level horizon. The sky is handled in soft atmospheric transitions—cool blues shifting into warm cream—creating a sense of salt air and distance, while the dunes on the right are constructed with heavier, more physical paint. The artist emphasizes wind and weather through quick, vertical grass marks and scraped, layered sand tones that read as sun-bleached and granular.
The technique is materially expressive. In the dune mass and foreground, the paint sits up off the surface in ridges and broken planes—consistent with impasto and palette-knife work—contrasted against thinner, blended passages in the sky and water. This push-pull between structure (dunes, grasses) and calm (sea, sky) is what gives the scene its “strength and harmony” effect: tactile landforms anchored against a serene, open seascape.
Stylistically, the work fits the mid-to-late 20th-century European-influenced coastal picture: impressionist realism geared toward light, atmosphere, and place rather than strict topographical description. The motif—Atlantic dunes, low surf, and a resting skiff—suggests a lived, familiar shoreline rather than a theatrical “grand view,” aligning with studio practices that favored approachable, interior-friendly seascapes.
Signature: signed lower right “GERT” (legible in the lower-right image detail). No edition number (unique painting).
Artist Biography – Albert Gert
Albert Gert (active mid-20th century) was a European-trained painter known for his atmospheric coastal landscapes and structurally expressive impasto technique. According to period biographical material provided through Mitch Morse Gallery, Gert descended from a Viennese family and spent his formative years in Northern Germany. He studied in Hamburg at the Academy and developed a disciplined foundation in draftsmanship and composition before undertaking extensive travels throughout Europe.
During his travels, Gert is reported to have exhibited in major cultural capitals including Paris, Milan, and Vienna. These cities were central to the postwar European art network, and the exposure to both academic tradition and modern painterly experimentation is evident in his work. The gallery biography emphasizes that Gert’s heavy structural handling of paint stands in compelling contrast to his subtly blended palette—a combination described as creating both strength and harmony in his compositions. This structural-versus-atmospheric duality remains the defining characteristic of his paintings.
Gert’s preferred subject matter reflects his lived experience along the Atlantic seashore. Having spent significant time living and working near coastal regions, he gravitated toward dune landscapes, tidal flats, and quiet maritime scenes. His paintings often depict windswept grasses, sandy ridges, low horizons, and solitary boats resting along the shore. Rather than dramatic maritime narratives, his works convey stillness, air, and light—capturing the contemplative atmosphere of northern European and Atlantic coastlines.
Technically, Gert worked in oil with a confident impasto approach, frequently using palette knife and loaded brushwork to construct dunes and foreground vegetation. These textured passages contrast with softly modulated skies and tranquil waters rendered in thin, blended layers. The result is a dynamic balance between tactile surface and luminous depth. This interplay of structure and softness aligns with late Impressionist and postwar European realist traditions, adapted for a mid-20th-century transatlantic audience.
Albert Gert’s paintings entered the American market through established galleries, including Mitch Morse Gallery, which acquired works in New York, Europe, and international channels. Mitch Morse Gallery was known for representing and publishing original graphics and paintings by international artists, and for introducing European-trained painters to American collectors seeking refined yet approachable works. Through this channel, Gert’s paintings found placement in private collections and regional galleries, particularly in coastal and metropolitan markets.
While comprehensive museum documentation under the exact name Albert Gert remains limited in major institutional archives, the consistent stylistic attributes, the documented gallery biography, and the circulation of his work through reputable dealers situate him within the broader narrative of postwar European studio painters whose works bridged academic tradition and decorative modernism. His legacy rests in the enduring appeal of his coastal imagery—structured dunes, expansive horizons, and atmospheres rendered with both physical presence and chromatic restraint.
Today, Albert Gert’s paintings are appreciated for their interior presence, textural strength, and tranquil maritime sensibility. Collectors are drawn to the harmony between impasto structure and subtle tonal gradation—a balance that reflects both his academic grounding and his lifelong affinity for the Atlantic shore.
Albert Gert
Coastal Dunes (attributed)
Circa 1970s
Oil with impasto technique
36 x 24 inches
Signed lower right “GERT”
Description
A mid-20th-century coastal seascape attributed to Albert Gert, depicting wind-swept dunes descending toward a calm Atlantic horizon with a beached skiff resting along the shoreline. The composition balances strong structural impasto in the foreground grasses and sand formations with softly blended sky and water passages, creating a harmonious contrast between tactile surface and atmospheric depth.
Executed in oil with confident palette-knife work, the dunes are built in layered, textured strokes that catch light dynamically, while the sky transitions in smooth tonal gradations from warm cream to marine blue. The horizontal horizon line provides compositional stability against the rising dune mass, a recurring structural device in Gert’s coastal imagery.
The painting reflects late 20th-century European-influenced impressionist realism and aligns with documented biographical material indicating the artist’s Northern European training and affinity for Atlantic shoreline subjects.
Certificate of Authentication
Artist: Albert Gert
Title: Coastal Dunes (attributed)
Date: circa 1970s (estimated)
Medium: impasto oil painting (support appears to be paper or paper mounted to board; buyer verification recommended)
Dimensions: 36 x 24 inches
Signature: signed lower right “GERT”
This certifies that the artwork described above is an original painting attributed to Albert Gert, based on visual examination of signature, technique, and accompanying gallery documentation.
Condition
Overall presentation is strong, with stable color and a clean horizon field. Visible edge wear is consistent with work on paper (deckled/irregular margins visible), including minor handling marks and localized scuffing near the perimeter. No major losses are apparent in the image area; recommend a simple in-person review under raking light to confirm impasto stability and to document any fine surface abrasions before framing or glazing.
Provenance chain
Albert Gert (artist)
Acquired by Mitch Morse Gallery (New York City / United States and Europe acquisition channels, per gallery practice)
Private collection / inventory held through Mitch Morse Gallery
Current owner: Artfind Gallery, Washington, DC
Coastal Dunes (attributed), Albert Gert (20th c.), c. 1970s, impasto oil, 36 x 24 in, signed lower right.
A luminous coastal dune seascape by Albert Gert, built with confident impasto and palette-knife structure: wind-cut sand, marram grass, and a calm Atlantic horizon with a beached skiff. The composition balances airy sky gradients with rugged, tactile foreground passages—an ideal statement work for coastal, Hamptons, Cape, and modern organic interiors. Signed lower right; 36 x 24 inches; impressionist-realism / postwar decorative modern seascape.
Artwork Description
This painting stages a quiet shoreline passage between dunes: a shallow, sandy run-out leads the eye past a small beached boat toward a broad, level horizon. The sky is handled in soft atmospheric transitions—cool blues shifting into warm cream—creating a sense of salt air and distance, while the dunes on the right are constructed with heavier, more physical paint. The artist emphasizes wind and weather through quick, vertical grass marks and scraped, layered sand tones that read as sun-bleached and granular.
The technique is materially expressive. In the dune mass and foreground, the paint sits up off the surface in ridges and broken planes—consistent with impasto and palette-knife work—contrasted against thinner, blended passages in the sky and water. This push-pull between structure (dunes, grasses) and calm (sea, sky) is what gives the scene its “strength and harmony” effect: tactile landforms anchored against a serene, open seascape.
Stylistically, the work fits the mid-to-late 20th-century European-influenced coastal picture: impressionist realism geared toward light, atmosphere, and place rather than strict topographical description. The motif—Atlantic dunes, low surf, and a resting skiff—suggests a lived, familiar shoreline rather than a theatrical “grand view,” aligning with studio practices that favored approachable, interior-friendly seascapes.
Signature: signed lower right “GERT” (legible in the lower-right image detail). No edition number (unique painting).
Artist Biography – Albert Gert
Albert Gert (active mid-20th century) was a European-trained painter known for his atmospheric coastal landscapes and structurally expressive impasto technique. According to period biographical material provided through Mitch Morse Gallery, Gert descended from a Viennese family and spent his formative years in Northern Germany. He studied in Hamburg at the Academy and developed a disciplined foundation in draftsmanship and composition before undertaking extensive travels throughout Europe.
During his travels, Gert is reported to have exhibited in major cultural capitals including Paris, Milan, and Vienna. These cities were central to the postwar European art network, and the exposure to both academic tradition and modern painterly experimentation is evident in his work. The gallery biography emphasizes that Gert’s heavy structural handling of paint stands in compelling contrast to his subtly blended palette—a combination described as creating both strength and harmony in his compositions. This structural-versus-atmospheric duality remains the defining characteristic of his paintings.
Gert’s preferred subject matter reflects his lived experience along the Atlantic seashore. Having spent significant time living and working near coastal regions, he gravitated toward dune landscapes, tidal flats, and quiet maritime scenes. His paintings often depict windswept grasses, sandy ridges, low horizons, and solitary boats resting along the shore. Rather than dramatic maritime narratives, his works convey stillness, air, and light—capturing the contemplative atmosphere of northern European and Atlantic coastlines.
Technically, Gert worked in oil with a confident impasto approach, frequently using palette knife and loaded brushwork to construct dunes and foreground vegetation. These textured passages contrast with softly modulated skies and tranquil waters rendered in thin, blended layers. The result is a dynamic balance between tactile surface and luminous depth. This interplay of structure and softness aligns with late Impressionist and postwar European realist traditions, adapted for a mid-20th-century transatlantic audience.
Albert Gert’s paintings entered the American market through established galleries, including Mitch Morse Gallery, which acquired works in New York, Europe, and international channels. Mitch Morse Gallery was known for representing and publishing original graphics and paintings by international artists, and for introducing European-trained painters to American collectors seeking refined yet approachable works. Through this channel, Gert’s paintings found placement in private collections and regional galleries, particularly in coastal and metropolitan markets.
While comprehensive museum documentation under the exact name Albert Gert remains limited in major institutional archives, the consistent stylistic attributes, the documented gallery biography, and the circulation of his work through reputable dealers situate him within the broader narrative of postwar European studio painters whose works bridged academic tradition and decorative modernism. His legacy rests in the enduring appeal of his coastal imagery—structured dunes, expansive horizons, and atmospheres rendered with both physical presence and chromatic restraint.
Today, Albert Gert’s paintings are appreciated for their interior presence, textural strength, and tranquil maritime sensibility. Collectors are drawn to the harmony between impasto structure and subtle tonal gradation—a balance that reflects both his academic grounding and his lifelong affinity for the Atlantic shore.
Albert Gert
Coastal Dunes (attributed)
Circa 1970s
Oil with impasto technique
36 x 24 inches
Signed lower right “GERT”
Description
A mid-20th-century coastal seascape attributed to Albert Gert, depicting wind-swept dunes descending toward a calm Atlantic horizon with a beached skiff resting along the shoreline. The composition balances strong structural impasto in the foreground grasses and sand formations with softly blended sky and water passages, creating a harmonious contrast between tactile surface and atmospheric depth.
Executed in oil with confident palette-knife work, the dunes are built in layered, textured strokes that catch light dynamically, while the sky transitions in smooth tonal gradations from warm cream to marine blue. The horizontal horizon line provides compositional stability against the rising dune mass, a recurring structural device in Gert’s coastal imagery.
The painting reflects late 20th-century European-influenced impressionist realism and aligns with documented biographical material indicating the artist’s Northern European training and affinity for Atlantic shoreline subjects.
Certificate of Authentication
Artist: Albert Gert
Title: Coastal Dunes (attributed)
Date: circa 1970s (estimated)
Medium: impasto oil painting (support appears to be paper or paper mounted to board; buyer verification recommended)
Dimensions: 36 x 24 inches
Signature: signed lower right “GERT”
This certifies that the artwork described above is an original painting attributed to Albert Gert, based on visual examination of signature, technique, and accompanying gallery documentation.
Condition
Overall presentation is strong, with stable color and a clean horizon field. Visible edge wear is consistent with work on paper (deckled/irregular margins visible), including minor handling marks and localized scuffing near the perimeter. No major losses are apparent in the image area; recommend a simple in-person review under raking light to confirm impasto stability and to document any fine surface abrasions before framing or glazing.
Provenance chain
Albert Gert (artist)
Acquired by Mitch Morse Gallery (New York City / United States and Europe acquisition channels, per gallery practice)
Private collection / inventory held through Mitch Morse Gallery
Current owner: Artfind Gallery, Washington, DC
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