Selected Artworks: Portrait
Above left: Eduard Aigner (German, 1903-1978), "Blondes Mädchen" (Blond girl), 1932, 83cm X 68cm, Oil on canvas. The "blond girl" correspondents with the 1926 painting "Inge" from Carlo Mense.
Above right: Marbie (French (?) XX), "La Garçonne", 1926, 60cm X 45cm, Oil on canvas. Besides the fashion statement of wearing suit , tie and a cloche-hat, the "Garçonne-look" in the 1920ies was the expression of being a self-confident and emancipated, modern girl.
Above; Otto Lange (German, 1879-1944), "Mädchenbildnis" (Portrait of a girl),1920ies, 41cm X 36cm, aquarelle on paper.
Above, left: Eric Godal (a.k.a. Erich Goldbaum, German 1899-1969), "Revue Girl", 1920ies, coloured pencil drawing on paper, 39,5cm 24cm. Godal was a Reporter, political cartoonist, Illustrator and painter in Berlin and was a friend of Jeanne Mammen. Because being jewish, Godal left Germany in 1935 but retured in 1954.
Above, right: Hermann Schweizer (German, 1910- 1998), "The dancer Chinita Ullman", 1930, 48cm X 30,5, Pastelle (crayon) on blue paper. In 1928, Hermann Schweizer met the late Christian Rohlfs. A year later, he began to studie at the University and "Werkkunstschule" in Cologne, at the Artacademy Königsberg (today Kaliningrad, Russia) and Berlin and later at the University Königsberg. He was student of Fritz Burmann and Willy Jaeckel. In 1937 he became an art teacher in Ahlen, Germany.
The portrayed Chinita Ullman (Born Frieda Ullman, 1904- 1977) was a famous Brazilian/German dancer. She was a student of Mary Wigman in Dresden and opened her own dance school in 1929. She left Germany in 1932 and toured Brazil with Kitty Bodenheim. Together with the painter Lasar Segall, she was founding member of the Brazilian avantgarde art group SPAM (1932).
Above: Jean Baptiste Hermann Hundt (German, 1894-1974), "Portrait", 1926, ca 40cm X 30cm, Pastelle (crayon) on paper. Hundt was member of the artists group "Junges Rheinland" and part of the direct circle of the famous artdealer "Mother Ey" in Duesseldorf. The portrait was probably executed while residing at the isle of Capri in 1926.
Above left: Willi Geiger (1978-1971), "Herrenbildnis" (Portrait of a man), 1932, Oilpainting on canvas. The painting was executed before Geiger was forced to resign from his professorship at the Art Academy Leipzig. During the Naziregime, his works were declared degenerated. Geiger used the flower motiv in the back of the portrait for his 1939 aquarelle "Sommerblumenstrauss".
Above right: Heinrich Stegemann (1888-1945), "The Turk", 1920, Lead pencil and charcoal on paper.