Ivo Hauptmann was one of the few German landscape painters who internalised the painting style of French Neo-Impressionism to such an extent that their works are very close to their models Paul Signac and Georges Seurat. Ivo Hauptmann became acquainted with and came to appreciate French open-air painting when he stayed in Paris in 1903 and from 1908-11 and attended the Académie Julian. Since then, his works have been characterised by watercolours and landscape motifs. His favourite subjects include harbours, sailing boats and beaches – especially the beach at Kloster on Hiddensee. On the Baltic island, which lies to the west of Rügen, Gerhart Hauptmann’s father used to spend summers with his family. In 1929 he bought the house “Seedorn” in the village of Kloster. Especially in the 1920s and 1930s, the beach at Kloster was a recurring motif in Ivo Hauptmann’s oeuvre. He mostly painted the beach chairs and sand dunes characteristic of the Baltic beaches with the visitors acting between them. In the background, the headland of Hiddensee, which lies near the beach of Kloster, can always be seen.