Grethe Jürgens

Lot description

Grethe Jürgens 1899 Holzhausen - 1981 Hanover - "Self-portrait" - (1922) Watercolor and pencil/paper. 15.5 x 10.5 cm. 34 x 27 cm (dimensions with frame). Inscribed on the reverse: Self-portrait, 1922, estate of my aunt / Grethe Jürgens, / Heide Jürgens-Hitz. On the reverse of the frame with object label from Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin. Further information there. Passe-partout. Fully visible, framed under glass. - Lit.: The True Face of Our Time. Images of Man in the Drawings of New Objectivity. Exh. Cat. Kunsthalle Kiel. Ed. by Uwe Fleckner and Dirk Luckow. Kiel 2014, p. 114. (with full-page color ill.). - Lit.: The Strongest Expression of Our Days. New Objectivity in Hanover. 9.12.2001 - 10.3.2002. Exh. Cat. Sprengel Museum Hanover. Hildesheim 2001, Cat No. 62, color ill. p. 103. - Exhibitions (selection): Grethe Jürgens - Gerta Overbeck. Bonner Kunstverein 1982, Cat. No. 13. / Grethe Jürgens. GEDOK in the Historisches Museum Hanover. 1987 / Grethe Jürgens. Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück. 1999, Cat. No. 13. - The Strongest Expression of Our Days. New Objectivity in Hanover. 9.12.2001 - 10.3.2002. Sprengel Museum Hanover, Cat No. 62 - The True Face of Our Time. Images of Man in the Drawings of New Objectivity. Kunsthalle Kiel. - Provenance: Private collection North Germany. Grethe Jürgens was a main representative of New Objectivity Hanover. She studied in the 1920s in Hanover in the graphics class with Burger-Mühlfeld. There she met Erich Wegner, Ernst Thoms and Gerta Overbeck.