Birch trees at the moor cut
Sophie Wencke (Bremerhaven 1874 - Worpswede 1963)
Lot-No. 125
Proceeds : 900 €
Oil/cardboard, 36,5 x 30 cm, lo. l. sign. S. Wencke. - Original frame by Erst Schultz, Worpswede. - Exhibition: 2007 Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen "Künstlerkolonie Worpswede. Ein Stück vom Himmel", 2011-2017 loan collection Overbeck-Museum, Bremen. - Provenance: Collection H. Wittig/Fricke. - Landscape painter, after studying in Dresden a. Berlin under W. Hamacher a. M. Uth she settled in Worpswede in 1898, where she became pupil of O. Modersohn, numerous exhibitions together with him, F. Overbeck a. H. Vogeler all over Germany, 1916-19 she designed motifs for the Hutschenreuther porcellain factory, she married in 1919 a. moved to Hamburg, despite extensive travels through Germany a. Europe her ouevre adheres to Worpswede motifs. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.
Sophie Wencke: Birch trees at the moor cut
Sophie Wencke (Bremerhaven 1874 - Worpswede 1963)
Birch trees at the moor cut
Lot-No. 125
Proceeds : 900 €
Oil/cardboard, 36,5 x 30 cm, lo. l. sign. S. Wencke. - Original frame by Erst Schultz, Worpswede. - Exhibition: 2007 Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen "Künstlerkolonie Worpswede. Ein Stück vom Himmel", 2011-2017 loan collection Overbeck-Museum, Bremen. - Provenance: Collection H. Wittig/Fricke. - Landscape painter, after studying in Dresden a. Berlin under W. Hamacher a. M. Uth she settled in Worpswede in 1898, where she became pupil of O. Modersohn, numerous exhibitions together with him, F. Overbeck a. H. Vogeler all over Germany, 1916-19 she designed motifs for the Hutschenreuther porcellain factory, she married in 1919 a. moved to Hamburg, despite extensive travels through Germany a. Europe her ouevre adheres to Worpswede motifs. Lit.: Thieme-Becker.