Help ID this painter - GERMAN?

Hello guys,
could really use your help with this one.
I bought it from the estate of a German antiques dealer along with some other paintings i managed to identify - All are from known GERMAN artists.

I assume this is probably a german artist too but i can not understand the signature.

I see: H.Ma-- OR H.Ma---

Oil on board, 23/27 cm, signed on the back as well.
PLEASE HELP.
THANK YOU

 

Welcome to Antiquers Smadgos.

 

H. Mann.

 

could be anything from Maur to Mair to Maier. I'd rather limit the research by the scribble on the back.

 

Hi and WELCOME, Smadgos!! Just offering an inverted image of the signature.... sometimes shows a better/clearer view....looks like it "could" be Maur.....just my guess....nice painting of someone's countryside manor!

 

nice painting...

 

It could be Schloss Wartin in Brandenburg. It might say Wartin on the back. Looks to me like a souvenir painting.

 

Hi smadgos. I can't help with the signature but love the picture and frame. Does anyone know what the coloured effect on the frame is called? It looks like patches of gold leaf but what is the overall effect called? Thanks.

 

age discoloration......?

 

from the pics on google computer says no.
to me it looks rather like an abbey or cloister.

 

You might be right, but... there are certainly similarities, coverage of Wartin isn't particularly extensive, and this painting isn't showing anyone's front door.

Essentially what Aquitaine said: "nice painting of someone's countryside manor". Wartin could fit the bill.

 

Wartin has what I call Prussian roofs, those roofs in two parts, and the walls are yellow.


The painting shows a brook or riverlet, Wartin only has a pond, which is not connected to any flowing water.


I agree with alors, the building on the painting looks like it could be an abbey/monastery or convent.

 

most of the pictures show Wartin on a hilltop (or hillock ) with the river passing at the foot.

 

Age discolouration? That's what my friends say about me! I was talking about the frame.

 

Do you mean to say you have patches of gold leaf?
Like this?

 

I heard gold leaf was very good for your skin. Isn't there a cosmetic company using it? Perhaps I'll end up more like this:

 

Thank you all for the great info!