Portrait der Margit Silfversvärd
Lotte Laserstein (Preußisch Holland/Königsberg 1898 - Kalmar/Schweden 1993)
Lot-No. 356
1938, oil/cardboard, 65 x 44 cm, lo. le. sign. Lotte Laserstein. - Exhibition: The painting was in following exhibitions: Lotte Laserstein. Meine einzige Wirklichkeit, Berlin 2003/04, no. 189; Sternverdunklung. Lotte Laserstein och Nelly Sachs, Ausst.-Kat. Judiska Museet, Stockholm 2005. - Literature: The painting is published in: cat. rais. Krausse, CD supplement p. 209; Lotte Laserstein. Meine einzige Wirklichkeit, exh. cat, Berlin 2003, p. 259, ill. 189; Sternverdunklung. Lotte Laserstein och Nelly Sachs, exh. cat. Stockholm 2005, p. 42, fig. 23. - Provenance: Silfversvärd family; Agnew's Gallery, London, 1994; Zurich private collection; Hamburg private collection since 2002. - German-Swedish paintress, studied at the Berlin art school until 1927 under E. Wolfseld. She established as portrait painter in Berlin. Harrassed by the Nazis she escaped to Sweden in 1937 where she worked until the end of her life. In 1987 she was honoured with a large retrospective in London, thereafter with numerous exhibitions both in Germany a. in Sweden.
Lotte Laserstein: Portrait der Margit Silfversvärd
Lotte Laserstein (Preußisch Holland/Königsberg 1898 - Kalmar/Schweden 1993)
Portrait der Margit Silfversvärd
Lot-No. 356
1938, oil/cardboard, 65 x 44 cm, lo. le. sign. Lotte Laserstein. - Exhibition: The painting was in following exhibitions: Lotte Laserstein. Meine einzige Wirklichkeit, Berlin 2003/04, no. 189; Sternverdunklung. Lotte Laserstein och Nelly Sachs, Ausst.-Kat. Judiska Museet, Stockholm 2005. - Literature: The painting is published in: cat. rais. Krausse, CD supplement p. 209; Lotte Laserstein. Meine einzige Wirklichkeit, exh. cat, Berlin 2003, p. 259, ill. 189; Sternverdunklung. Lotte Laserstein och Nelly Sachs, exh. cat. Stockholm 2005, p. 42, fig. 23. - Provenance: Silfversvärd family; Agnew's Gallery, London, 1994; Zurich private collection; Hamburg private collection since 2002. - German-Swedish paintress, studied at the Berlin art school until 1927 under E. Wolfseld. She established as portrait painter in Berlin. Harrassed by the Nazis she escaped to Sweden in 1937 where she worked until the end of her life. In 1987 she was honoured with a large retrospective in London, thereafter with numerous exhibitions both in Germany a. in Sweden.
