Stone Breaker
Anita Rée (Hamburg 1885 - Kampen 1933)
Lot-No. 202
Oil/canvas, 41 x 65 cm, lo. ri. sign. Rée. - 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 took lessons with F. Léger in Paris. R. was co-founder of the Hamburg secession a. the 'Gedok'. She was also a sought-after portrait painter. Being harrassed by the Nazis she died isolated on the island of Sylt in 1933.
Anita Rée: Stone Breaker
Anita Rée (Hamburg 1885 - Kampen 1933)
Stone Breaker
Lot-No. 202
Oil/canvas, 41 x 65 cm, lo. ri. sign. Rée. - 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 took lessons with F. Léger in Paris. R. was co-founder of the Hamburg secession a. the 'Gedok'. She was also a sought-after portrait painter. Being harrassed by the Nazis she died isolated on the island of Sylt in 1933.
