Lot 264: Still Life with Amaryllis

Wohlwill, Gretchen Hamburg 1878 - Hamburg 1962
Still Life with Amaryllis
Oil/canvas/masonite, 61,5 x 49 cm.

Bought from the artist in the 1950s; Galeri Herold, Hamburg a. Kampen; Hamburg private collection.

Painter a. graphic artist, studied at the Ladies painting school of Valeska Röver in Hamburg under E. Eitner a. A. Illies a. in Paris at the Académie Stettler, assistant in the studio of H. Matisse, co-founder of the Hamburg secession, emigrated to Portugal in 1940, returned to Hamburg in 1952, her impressionist style became influenced by P. Cézanne a. H. Matisse during her Paris sojourn, later she turned to New Objectivity a. the Hamburg secession style.