A Sitting Mother with Child
Emy Roeder (Würzburg 1890 - Mainz 1971)
Lot-No. 609
Starting Bid: 3.000 €
Designed 1939. Bronze, brown patinated. H. 35 cm. Monogrammed ER, numbered copy 5/13, foundry mark GUSS STREHLE. Expressive depiction of a seated mother offering her child her breast - German sculptor and draughtswoman, leading representative of sculptural expressionism. She received her training in Würzburg, Munich and Darmstadt, was a student of Bernhard Hoetger and Hugo Lederer and successfully established herself in Berlin in the 1920s. Ostracized as a 'degenerate' artist in 1937 and banned from exhibiting, she returned to Germany in 1949 after years of exile and internment in Italy and lived in Mainz until her death. The extraordinary artist's life's work was last comprehensively honored in 2019/20 in a major retrospective at the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin Mus.: Würzburg, Museum im Kulturspeicher; Berlin, Georg Kolbe Museum
Emy Roeder: A Sitting Mother with Child
Emy Roeder (Würzburg 1890 - Mainz 1971)
A Sitting Mother with Child
Lot-No. 609
Starting Bid: 3.000 €
Designed 1939. Bronze, brown patinated. H. 35 cm. Monogrammed ER, numbered copy 5/13, foundry mark GUSS STREHLE. Expressive depiction of a seated mother offering her child her breast - German sculptor and draughtswoman, leading representative of sculptural expressionism. She received her training in Würzburg, Munich and Darmstadt, was a student of Bernhard Hoetger and Hugo Lederer and successfully established herself in Berlin in the 1920s. Ostracized as a 'degenerate' artist in 1937 and banned from exhibiting, she returned to Germany in 1949 after years of exile and internment in Italy and lived in Mainz until her death. The extraordinary artist's life's work was last comprehensively honored in 2019/20 in a major retrospective at the Georg Kolbe Museum in Berlin Mus.: Würzburg, Museum im Kulturspeicher; Berlin, Georg Kolbe Museum
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