The effects of flooding- from a nearby river- and freezing weather produce large sheets of ice, some of which can be seen in the foreground of this landscape view next to a dock area with several boats seen at far right of frame.

Ernst Schatz: 1854-1911

Amateur photographer Ernst Schatz is known to have exhibited in the Sixth International Exhibition of Art Photography in Hamburg in 1898, as well as the 1904 St. Louis International Exhibition. A 1905 cabinet card of Schatz held by the University Library in Wrocław provides biographical information he was a city councilor in Breslau (now-Wroclaw) from 1904-1911, the year of his passing.