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Clara Telge (Part V) China and Hamburg
Bernard Telge traded (import/export) in metals (iron), colonial ware, machinery for mining and printing, building and contracting of railways and bridges, steam engines, railway locomotives etc.. He...
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Paul Leschorn: Sanguinary Islands (Corse Fr.)
Paul Leschorn (Metz 1876 - 1951 Allensbach), German painter and printmaker is mainly known by (and loved for) his "Alpine" winter landscape prints depicting the Vosges near his native Metz and later...
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Deja vu: Paris, Boulevard Montparnasse
An artist (I'm confident that with the help of readers we will be able to decipher the signature) travelled to Paris, took a room in Grand Hotel de Russie (photo below, left) at the corner of...
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Finding Helene Pferdmenges
Helene Pferdmenges"Kleinbahn" Unknown and unidentified printmaker. In my ongoing research into the life's of forgotten German women printmakers it is not often that I encounter a completely new (to me)...
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Finding Helene Pferdmenges (news)
After posting and sending several emails to Pferdmenges family members with accessible email addresses I received notice of attention by a friendly family member who will look into this puzzle and...
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Marie Wipperrmann in Paris II: A year later and first results !
Through this Blog I recently came in touch with Marie Wippermann relatives resulting in a very friendly correspondence, additional biography, family photographs and: two more woodblock prints by her...
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Marie Wippermann & Agnes Salomon in Paris
Agnes Salomon (married journalist Joachim von Bülow 1908)(Hamburg 1884 - 1939 Brussels) Painter and printmaker Agnes Salomon (poss. "Dame in Weiss", before 1904)She was the daughter of Hamburg...
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Agnes Salomon II: at last, progress !
Although Agnes Salomon is not represented in my personal print collection she recently is the focus of my research. Agnes is "just one" one of the over 300 mostly obscured and hardly researched women...
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Mediterane Küste
Help requested please to identify the 1959 printmaker of this colourful abstract "Mediterane Küste" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeXa8sUvreQAll suggestions are welcomed.(other then "Dart Väder")...
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Agnes Salomons Paris (1900-1910)
The other week in a car boot I found 2 old "Souvenir" photos and postcards album. They contained many postcards from European cities from around the turn of the century but also some very clear, sharp...
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Deja Vu....solved: Ernst Pickardt
Finding the complete text of a 1924 graphics catalogue resulted in solving this mystery signature in this print found recently see posting of May 25th. Thank you Wolfgang. The artist is Berlin Jewish...
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Elsa von Durant: to the Manor born..
To my best knowledge: this condensed short biography is a first attempt.The artist Eva Tischner-von Durant is not mentioned in any of the Artist Lexicons or adress books. All help and further...
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Elsa von Durant: extra !
First result of my request for information and examples by artist Elsa von Durant. (Danke, Thank you H.)Two etchings proving she was a graphic artist also published in "Jugend" magazine : "Lesendes...
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Helene Isenbart:: Dantzig Oliwa Cathedral
Annex collecting "Holzschnitte" and continuously researching the biographies of German women printmakers born in the 19th century, on rare occasions opportunity knocks: finding and actually being able...
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Walter Schürmeyer: who ?
(It took me some time to "find out" but, thankfully, the little grey cells proved to be more or less functioning: retrieving and linking an "unlabelled" image from the brains- to the computers database...
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Etelka Edvi-Illés Karády: Budapest flowers
Etelka Karády (Beodra 1877 - 1969 Budapest)Hungarian painter and graphic artist Of course I'd never heard of Etelka Karády or, as she is also known: Etelka Edvi-Illés Alladárne ("the wife of") or with...
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Wolfgang Wagner: caged tiger
Wolfgang Wagner (Fürth 1884 - 1931 Munich) happened to be a Munich academically trained illustrator, caricaturist and printmaker, who had studied under Angelo Jank. Wagners work was mostly distributed...
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Helene Ady: big cats in Berlin
Helene Ady(born 1875-1880 - died after 1930 probably in Berlin)Graphic artist, arts & crafts artist, goldsmith and painter As this blog is composed following my stream of consciousness the cats in...
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Wilhelm Christens: Düsseldorf Sunflowers and Bachante
Wilhelm Christens (1878-1964) Wilhelm Christens was a Dusseldorf academically trained and based painter and printmaker. He is known for his landscapes, portraits and still-life painting, was an etcher...
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German Drawing: lithographic nude - Of Matisse, Picasso & the Inkwell Press
Without any hesitation the hand that drew the outlines of this sketch created body, volume and even transferred the almost tangible softness and warmth of the lovely model onto the paper. In 1962, with...
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