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House by the Lake

Gretchen Wohlwill (Hamburg 1878 - Hamburg 1962)


House by the Lake

Lot-No. 158

Proceeds : 10.500 €


1920s, oil/canvas, 59 x 68,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. G. Wohlwill. Cat. rais.: Rosenkranz 84, fig. 3. - In colour a. composition it is a typical work of the 1920s. The trees by the lake serve to direct the spectators eyes to the sunlit building at the right. - Painter a. graphic artist, studied at the Ladies painting school of Valeska Röver in Hamburg under E. Eitner a. A. Illies a. in Paris at the Académie Stettler, assistant in the studio of H. Matisse, co-founder of the Hamburg secession, emigrated to Portugal in 1940, returned to Hamburg in 1952, her impressionist style became influenced by P. Cézanne a. H. Matisse during her Paris sojourn, later she turned to New Objectivity a. the Hamburg secession style. - Mus.: Hamburg (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Schleswig (SHLM), Flensburg a. others. - Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Bruhns "G.W. - eine jüdische Malerin aus Hamburg" m. WVZ (bearb. v. Rosenkranz) a. others.

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Gretchen Wohlwill: House by the Lake


Gretchen Wohlwill (Hamburg 1878 - Hamburg 1962)

House by the Lake

Lot-No. 158

Proceeds : 10.500 €

Print

1920s, oil/canvas, 59 x 68,5 cm, lo. ri. sign. G. Wohlwill. Cat. rais.: Rosenkranz 84, fig. 3. - In colour a. composition it is a typical work of the 1920s. The trees by the lake serve to direct the spectators eyes to the sunlit building at the right. - Painter a. graphic artist, studied at the Ladies painting school of Valeska Röver in Hamburg under E. Eitner a. A. Illies a. in Paris at the Académie Stettler, assistant in the studio of H. Matisse, co-founder of the Hamburg secession, emigrated to Portugal in 1940, returned to Hamburg in 1952, her impressionist style became influenced by P. Cézanne a. H. Matisse during her Paris sojourn, later she turned to New Objectivity a. the Hamburg secession style. - Mus.: Hamburg (Hamburger Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Schleswig (SHLM), Flensburg a. others. - Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Bruhns "G.W. - eine jüdische Malerin aus Hamburg" m. WVZ (bearb. v. Rosenkranz) a. others.

House by the Lake
House by the Lake