Lot 180: Lantern parade

Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn, Flensburg 1898 - Hamburg 1991 Lantern parade, Oil/wood, 66 x 67 cm, lo. ri. monogr. E. H. D., on the reverse inscribed 'Elsa Haensgen-Dingkuhn Hamburg-Berne'. - 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.