Red-Headed Girl
Anita Rée (Hamburg 1885 - Kampen 1933)
Lot-No. 242
Proceeds : 3.400 €
Around 1927. Pen and ink drawing and chalk. 28,5 x 22,5 cm. Unframed. Lo. ri. monogr. AR. Min. dam. - Literature: Cat. rais.: Bruhns Z 285 - Provenance: Collection Agnes and Wilhelm Holthusen - 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 and F. Ahlers-Hestermann. In 1912 she took lessons with F. Léger in Paris. R. was co-founder of the Hamburg secession and 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. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Bremen (Kunsthalle), Schleswig (SHLM), Wuppertal, Rendsburg (Jüdisches Mus.), Jerusalem a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, M. Bruhns: Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin, 2001 a. others.
Anita Rée: Red-Headed Girl
Anita Rée (Hamburg 1885 - Kampen 1933)
Red-Headed Girl
Lot-No. 242
Proceeds : 3.400 €
Around 1927. Pen and ink drawing and chalk. 28,5 x 22,5 cm. Unframed. Lo. ri. monogr. AR. Min. dam. - Literature: Cat. rais.: Bruhns Z 285 - Provenance: Collection Agnes and Wilhelm Holthusen - 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 and F. Ahlers-Hestermann. In 1912 she took lessons with F. Léger in Paris. R. was co-founder of the Hamburg secession and 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. Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle, Altonaer Mus.), Bremen (Kunsthalle), Schleswig (SHLM), Wuppertal, Rendsburg (Jüdisches Mus.), Jerusalem a. others. Lit.: Thieme-Becker, Bénézit, Vollmer, Der Neue Rump, M. Bruhns: Anita Rée. Leben und Werk einer Hamburger Malerin, 2001 a. others.
