Lot 418: Painter with palette

Hella Jacobs Hamburg 1905 - Hamburg 1974 , Painter with palette, Oil/paper, 34 x 41 cm, on the reverse estate stamp, matted a. framed under glass, uninspected out of frame., German painter and graphic artist. J. studied at Hamburg and Altona arts schools from 1924 to 1926, did study trips to Italy and Paris and was friends with K. Kluth. J.'s work was classified as degenerate by the National Socialists. In 1943 the bigger part of her oeuvre burned. Most of J.'s highly expressive works show people on the margins of society or thematise human passions.