Mountainous Landscape with Goats
Alma del Banco (Hamburg 1863 - Hamburg 1943)
Lot-No. 192
Proceeds : 8.700 €
Around 1932, oil on canvas, 50 x 55 cm, verso estate stamps of Alma del Banco on canvas and stretcher. - Cat. rais.: Weimar G2002/86. - One of the most eminent painters a. graphic artists of the Hamburg avantgarde. 1895-97 she was pupil of E. Eitner a. A. Illies at Valeska Röver's art school in Hamburg, thereafter she studied in Paris under F. Léger a. J. Simon. She was co-founder of the Hamburg secession, member of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft a. of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. Among her friends were K. Kluth, E. Hartmann, W. Grimm, G. Wohlwill, F. Ahlers-Hestermann a. A. Povorina. Between WW I a. II she travelled widely through South Europe, in 1937 13 of her works from the Hamburg Kunsthalle were seized as 'degenerate' by the Nazis. Getting the information that she was to be deported in a concentration camp she committed suicide.
Alma del Banco: Mountainous Landscape with Goats
Alma del Banco (Hamburg 1863 - Hamburg 1943)
Mountainous Landscape with Goats
Lot-No. 192
Proceeds : 8.700 €
Around 1932, oil on canvas, 50 x 55 cm, verso estate stamps of Alma del Banco on canvas and stretcher. - Cat. rais.: Weimar G2002/86. - One of the most eminent painters a. graphic artists of the Hamburg avantgarde. 1895-97 she was pupil of E. Eitner a. A. Illies at Valeska Röver's art school in Hamburg, thereafter she studied in Paris under F. Léger a. J. Simon. She was co-founder of the Hamburg secession, member of the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft a. of the Deutscher Künstlerbund. Among her friends were K. Kluth, E. Hartmann, W. Grimm, G. Wohlwill, F. Ahlers-Hestermann a. A. Povorina. Between WW I a. II she travelled widely through South Europe, in 1937 13 of her works from the Hamburg Kunsthalle were seized as 'degenerate' by the Nazis. Getting the information that she was to be deported in a concentration camp she committed suicide.