Auctions → Asian and Art and Antiques April 2015 → April 2015 Kunst und Antiquitäten → Anita Rée: Fisherwoman with Doves
Ca. 1922-25, tempera, ink a. collage, 37,5 x 51 cm, lo. ri. monogr. AR, min. dam., framed under glass, uninspected out of frame. - R. is one of the most eminents artists of Hamburg. She began as pupil of A. Siebelist, one of the most important painting teachers in Hamburg at that time. Since 1910 she shared a studio with F. Nölken a. F. Ahlers-Hestermann. In 1912 she was pupil of F. Léger in Paris. R. was co-fonder of the Hamburg secession a. the 'Gedok'. She was also a sought-after portrait painter. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Bremen (Kunsthalle), Schleswig (SHLM), Wuppertal, Rendsburg (Jüdisches Mus.), Jerusalem a. others. - Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Vollmer, Rump, Der Neue Rump a. others.