Portrait of a Girl
Harry Reuss-Löwenstein (Fulda 1880 - Hamburg 1966)
Lot-No. 74
Watercolour, 37,5 x 31,5 cm, sign. a. dat. lo. ri. Harry Löwenstein 18, discolouration, traces of mounting, unopened. - Painter a. writer, teacher of E. Bargheer, trained at the Hamburg school of applied arts under the art nouveau artist a. designer F. Adler, work as art critic for the "Hamburger Anzeiger" since 1923, in 1935 he was dismissed for writing an obituary on M. Liebermann, was honoured with the Federal Cross of Merit on his 70th birthday in 1950. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle). - Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Dressler, Ausst.-Kat. Bruhns "H.R.-L. 1880-1966. Seeman-Schriftsteller-Maler" (2005) a. others.
Harry Reuss-Löwenstein: Portrait of a Girl
Harry Reuss-Löwenstein (Fulda 1880 - Hamburg 1966)
Portrait of a Girl
Lot-No. 74
Watercolour, 37,5 x 31,5 cm, sign. a. dat. lo. ri. Harry Löwenstein 18, discolouration, traces of mounting, unopened. - Painter a. writer, teacher of E. Bargheer, trained at the Hamburg school of applied arts under the art nouveau artist a. designer F. Adler, work as art critic for the "Hamburger Anzeiger" since 1923, in 1935 he was dismissed for writing an obituary on M. Liebermann, was honoured with the Federal Cross of Merit on his 70th birthday in 1950. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle). - Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, Dressler, Ausst.-Kat. Bruhns "H.R.-L. 1880-1966. Seeman-Schriftsteller-Maler" (2005) a. others.