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GET LOST !in DAS HAUS DER FRAU4 months after starting my private collection Website the main structure is standing. Although far from ready, there's enough to see, explore and discover on a rainy...
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Suprise !
Martinus Ursul Marie Gewin (1900 - 1976)(obscured German artist born, lived, worked and died in Obermenzing near Munich) Although my active Blogging days are over, for sentimental reasons this special...
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Unknown Dutch artist: P. Huijsman
P. Huijsman - 1977These two "minimalist" and typical Dutch landscape drawings (they look like pen and ink drawings but are actually highest quality lithographic prints in an edition of 25) were found...
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Dick van Luyn in Paris (1920s)
Dick van Luyn (1896-1981) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist known for his etchings and linocut printmaking. After collecting some of his linocut prints this Paris etching of great charm was...
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Pordenone
Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis (1484 - 1539)(also known as Il Pordenone) A drawing of a climbing nude woman seen on the back was reattributed to this innovative sixteenth-century painter. Stylishly it is...
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Claude Loewer
Claude Loewer(La Chaux de Fonds 1917 - 2006 Montmollin Sw.) This abstract pastel water colour painting was offered as attributed to Claude Loewer and was acquired, inexpensively, simply because I...
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Hugo Gellert
Hugo Gellert (Budapest 1892 - 1985 New York)American illustrator, and socialist activist. These 2 charming gouache paintings recently showed up and drew my attention: on first sight, they could be...
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Mystery dragon print
Are you curious who created this unique 1928 print and what it represents ?Visit: Das Haus der Frau https://www.dashausderfrau.nl/schmitt-helene.htmlThe home of Germany's first generation of women...
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Artificial Intelligence and the fishing woman
Jacques (Karel Maximilian Jacob) Comte de Lalaing(London 4/14-11-1858 - 10-10-1917 Brussels)was a Belgian sculptor and aristocrate mainly known for his many (animal) sculptures in the public space of...
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A mystery and mystic print......
Johanna Goerke-Cassirer (b. 1942) Contemporary Berlin painter and graphic artist It took me also some time to "see the image" of the jazz players in Kandinsky's abstract woodblock print. And I am...
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Lillsjönäsgårt
A stone's throw from Abrahamsberg metro station, we find a remnant of rural Bromma. Nestled in greenery, at the end of a lime tree avenue, is Lillsjönäs farm. A place with traces of the past.The main...
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Puzzle: Jaxman ?
Elizabeth Jaxman or ? (....better suggestions)Charming coloured ink portrait of a reading girl. I have no idea about the artist, Jaxman (what I read) as a family name is highly unlikely. Several other...
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Fernand Lambert 1
Fernand Alexis Lambert (1868-1934/35)was a not very well known French landscape painter and critic. He was born in Lyon, studied in Paris under Bougereau and is known by half a dozen really nice...
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Fernand Lambert 2: La Laitière
La LaitièreRecently this large drawing was discovered and rescued after being dismissed by its former owners. I think, as best as I can, the signature may read "Fernand Lambert 1903". But it could...
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Unknown Lill Tschudi ?
"Unbekannte" Lill Tschudi ?Last summer this print popped up in an internet auction. It had stayed unrecognised and unwanted by any impulsive buyer, serious collector or commercial dealer: there's no...
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Lill Tschudi: 1944
Sooner than expected the question of attribution was solved by my American collecting friend and print expert Tom Clemens in Boston who's friend Ben Weiss, curator of Boston Museum of Arts, identified...
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Pont Neuf
Le Pont Neuf (Paris)This etching was found recently. The location is a well known, iconic and famous one: the oldest stone bridges of Paris connecting the western tip Isle-de-la-Cité with 2 sets of...
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Alfred Möllner: "a kind of Nolde"
Alfred Möllner (born Hildesheim 1930 - ?)"Meer mit roten Wolken"If you ever dreamed to have and to hang an Emil Nolde (1867-1956) painting, and are not financially solid enough to transfer 7.3 Million...
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Hans Schütz 1906
FRÜHZEIT des Modernen HolzschnittsThis winter print was exhibited in the winter of 2014-15 in Städistche Wessenberg-Gallerie in Konstanz in an exhibition showing 60 winter woodblock prints from the...
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Tea ceremony ?
Help requested I have no idea who created this print. Nor any clue to what we see: a tea ceremony ?(23 x 47 cm.) It is a thoroughly Japanese (Chinese, Korean ?) in subject, in style and character but...
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