22.5 x 17 cm. (8.9 x 6.7 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

Born on September 16, 1856 in Wismar, Germany, von Gloeden studied art history in Rostock and painting in Weimar ... He died on February 16, 1931 in Taormina, Italy at the age of 74.

Taormina gives the scene a stylized treatment; as they speed past, the trucks look more like magical light paintings than fire engines. "That scene has its place in like a whole grand chemistry ...