Portrait of a Physician
Alma del Banco (Hamburg 1878 - Hamburg 1943)
Lot-No. 6
Ca. 1927, oil/canvas/wood, 101 x 85 cm, lo. ri. sign. A. del Banco. - We are grateful to Friederike Weimar for her kind assistance. - One of the most eminent painters a. graphic artists of the Hamburg avantgarde. 1895-97 she was pupil of E. Eitner a. A. Illies at Valeska Röver's art school in Hamburg, thereafter she studied in Paris under F. Léger a. J. Simon. She was co-founder of the Hamburg secession, member of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft a. of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. Among her friends were K. Kluth, E. Hartmann, W. Grimm, G. Wohlwill, F. Ahlers-Hestermann a. A. Povorina. Between WW I a. II she travelled widely through South Europe, in 1937 13 of her works from the Hamburg Kunsthalle were seized as 'degenerate' by the Nazis. Getting the information that she was to be deported in a concentration camp she committed suicide. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Rendsburg (Jüdisches Mus.) a. others. - Lit.: Rump, Der Neue Rump, Vollmer, Kat. 'Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde in HH', Weimar a. others.
Alma del Banco: Portrait of a Physician
Alma del Banco (Hamburg 1878 - Hamburg 1943)
Portrait of a Physician
Lot-No. 6
Ca. 1927, oil/canvas/wood, 101 x 85 cm, lo. ri. sign. A. del Banco. - We are grateful to Friederike Weimar for her kind assistance. - One of the most eminent painters a. graphic artists of the Hamburg avantgarde. 1895-97 she was pupil of E. Eitner a. A. Illies at Valeska Röver's art school in Hamburg, thereafter she studied in Paris under F. Léger a. J. Simon. She was co-founder of the Hamburg secession, member of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft a. of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. Among her friends were K. Kluth, E. Hartmann, W. Grimm, G. Wohlwill, F. Ahlers-Hestermann a. A. Povorina. Between WW I a. II she travelled widely through South Europe, in 1937 13 of her works from the Hamburg Kunsthalle were seized as 'degenerate' by the Nazis. Getting the information that she was to be deported in a concentration camp she committed suicide. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Rendsburg (Jüdisches Mus.) a. others. - Lit.: Rump, Der Neue Rump, Vollmer, Kat. 'Künstlerinnen der Avantgarde in HH', Weimar a. others.