German painter Leo Putz (1869-1940) was born in the South Tyrol in what, after WW1, became Italy. He settled in Munich and became part of the Munich Secessionists. He used to spend the summer at Schloss Hartmannsburg in Bavaria where he painted many images of girls in boats and nude bathers by the lakes there. This painting, The Rowing Boat, was painted in 1912 and has a surprisingly modern feel to it. The lady is almost certainly his lover, Frieda Blell, a fellow painter, who Putz eventually married in 1913.
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