Georgette
Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (Hamburg 1883 - Berlin 1973)
Lot-No. 209
Proceeds : 6.300 €
1910. Oil/canvas, 54,5 x 45 cm, on the reverse portrait of the opera singer Dore Blindow, painted by Alexandra Povórina, Ahlers-Hestermann's wife, the latter painting monogr. AP, relined to the margins. - Literature: Cat. rais. Povòrina: Münster G139. - Painter and author, taught painting by A. Siebelist. He travelled to Paris with F. Nölken and W. Rosam where he became pupil of H. Matisse in 1910 and met his future wife, A. Povorina. Back in Hamburg he joined the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub and the Hamburg secession. Since 1928 he was professor at the Cologne Werkkunstschule, a position from which he was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933. After the war he became a head of the Berlin academy of arts. He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz and the Edwin Scharff award. Mus.: Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Cologne a. others. Lit.: Der Neue Rump; F. A.-H.: Pause vor dem dritten Akt, 1949 (1975); C. Meyer-Tönnesmann: Der Hamburgische Künstlerclub von 1897, 1985; A. Manigold: Der Hamburger Maler F.A.-H., Hamburg 1986; I. Ewers-Schultz: F. A.-H., hrsg. von der Gal. Herold Hamburg.
Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann: Georgette
Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann (Hamburg 1883 - Berlin 1973)
Georgette
Lot-No. 209
Proceeds : 6.300 €
1910. Oil/canvas, 54,5 x 45 cm, on the reverse portrait of the opera singer Dore Blindow, painted by Alexandra Povórina, Ahlers-Hestermann's wife, the latter painting monogr. AP, relined to the margins. - Literature: Cat. rais. Povòrina: Münster G139. - Painter and author, taught painting by A. Siebelist. He travelled to Paris with F. Nölken and W. Rosam where he became pupil of H. Matisse in 1910 and met his future wife, A. Povorina. Back in Hamburg he joined the Hamburgischer Künstlerclub and the Hamburg secession. Since 1928 he was professor at the Cologne Werkkunstschule, a position from which he was dismissed by the Nazis in 1933. After the war he became a head of the Berlin academy of arts. He was awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz and the Edwin Scharff award. Mus.: Berlin, Hamburg, Essen, Cologne a. others. Lit.: Der Neue Rump; F. A.-H.: Pause vor dem dritten Akt, 1949 (1975); C. Meyer-Tönnesmann: Der Hamburgische Künstlerclub von 1897, 1985; A. Manigold: Der Hamburger Maler F.A.-H., Hamburg 1986; I. Ewers-Schultz: F. A.-H., hrsg. von der Gal. Herold Hamburg.
