Elena Liessner-Blomberg,  Berlin, 1933-34;

Lot description

Elena Liessner-Blomberg, Russian/German 1897-1978 - Berlin, 1933-34; gouache on paper, signed lower right 'Elene Liessner 33' (covered by mount) and signed, dated and tilted to mount 'E. Liessner 34 Berlin', 21.3 x 13.8 cm (ARR) Note: Born in Moscow, Liessner-Blomberg studied under Antoine Pevsner and Ljubow Popowa at the Russian technical school Vkhutemas. In 1921, she emigrated to Berlin and worked as a costume designer for the cabaret and theatre. Her love of fashion and costume became a frequent subject of her work. By the late 1960s, the artist was credited as an integral member of the second generation of the Russian avant-garde. The artist was exhibited in The Groninger Museum’s ‘Sisters of the Revolution: Russia 1907-1934’ in 2013, alongside her contemporaries Aleksandra Ekster, Sofia Dymshits-Tolstaya and Anna Kagan. More recently in 2020, the Sprengel Museum Hannover held a retrospective of the artist’s work entitled ‘Drawings by a Moscow Berliner’.