Lot 179: Boy with Hobbyhorse

Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn, Flensburg 1898 - Hamburg 1991 Boy with Hobbyhorse, Oil/wood, 79,5 x 65,5 cm, lo. ri. mongr. E. H. D. - Prov.: From the property of the sitter to his neighbor. - Hamburg paintress. H.-D. began studying at the Flensburg Kunstschule a. continued her studies 1919-22 at the Hamburg Kunstgewerbeschule under A. Illies, J. Wohlers a. J. Bossard. Before 1933 she joined the Hamburgische Künstlerschaft. she travelled widely with her husband, the painter F. Dingkuhn. Many of her paintings feature children. - Mus.: Hamburg (Kunsthalle), Schleswig (SHLM), Flensburg. - Lit.: Der Neue Rump, Heydorn, Feddersen, Schleswig-Holsteinisches Künstler-Lexikon.