Paula Wimmer, German Expressionist 1923 Hand Colored Lithograph, Die Schaffenden

Description: Paula Wimmer (German, 1876 to 1971) Federsortiererei. Radierung, ankoloriert , 1922-3Hand colored etchingSigned lower right in pencil 16 by 12 inches (page) 5 1/4 by 4 1/4 inches (plate) Published by Euphorion Verlag, BerlinFrom Die Schaffenden, IV. Jahrgang, 2. Mappe, 1923. From the edition of 125. Fine vintage condition. Never framed with publisher blindstamp (Euphorion Verlag) embossed in lower right corner of paper lower right corner. Annex Gallery writes, “Paula Wimmer, was born in 1876 in Solln, Munich Germany on January 9. After visiting the girls' high school, where she displayed talent for drawing and painting, she decided on an artistic education. She first studied with Carl Johann Becker-Gundahl at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. There she met artists Franz von Stuck and Max Feldbauer. She continued her studies in Florence, Italy at the Academia, then in Paris at the École Rancon and 1908 at the private art school of Max Bauer Field in Dachau and Munich, where she learned the Aktzeichnens style of plein air painting she became dedicated to. She accompanied Max Feldbauer to Griesbach / Lower Bavaria and also accompanied him on a study trip to Brittany. When her teacher was called to Dresden, Wimmer returned to Dachau, Germany. She broke away from the impressionist style of Max Bauer and explored the independent artistic expression of Expressionism. Even as a student Paula Wimmer was made a member of the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. Wimmer also undertook study trips to Venice, Florence, Rome and Paris. In 1914 she went with her mother to Berlin, where she lived for two years and associated with leading representatives of Expressionism, who influenced her profoundly. In the well-known art critic Paul Westheim, who campaigned particularly for those avant-garde, Paula Wimmer found an influential patron. In Berlin Paula Wimmer became a friend of the German-Jewish poet Else Lasker-Schüler. After 1916, she made Dachau her permanent home. There she attended the private painting school of Adolf Hölzel (1853-1934), who always came in the summer months with a large group of disciples from Stuttgart to Dachau, and was a close friends with Ida Kerkovius (1879-1970), Maria Langer-Scholler (1878-1969) and Else von Freytag-Lovinghoven (1874-1927), to name just a few. to the so-called. "Malweibern" (Women of the Times). Paula Wimmer also worked as a Fresco painter in Dachau’s "St. Jacob's Church." In Dachau the painter and graphic artist was a member of the "group of Dachau Artists", the "Dachau Art Association" and the" New Secession.” With great success she charged into the 1920s and 1930s, holding exhibitions in Munich, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Paris, Stuttgart, Salzburg, etc. In 1918 in Salzburg she was awarded the "Silver State Medal." Paula Wimmer's success resulted in the Nazis rating her works as “degenerate art” and destroyed many of them. After that she began to work in a naive style and paint with innocuous picture themes. After World War II, her works were represented at the exhibition in the Haus der Kunst, Munich. She ranks formost among the Dachau Artist group. In her adopted home there is a street called the "Paula-Wimmer-Stube". Many of her works can be seen in the "Gemäldegalerie Dachau". Paula Wimmer died on June 15, 1971 in Dachau, Germany.” Listing a large group of German Expressionist prints from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism and European Avant-Garde. As Swann wrote in its 2019 offering where this print was purchased, “Few collectors in Breslau during the early 1900s had a passion for connoisseurship, collecting and the visual arts equal to Ismar Littmann (1878-1934). Born in Gross Strehlitz, Upper Silesia, between Breslau and Kraków, Littmann completed doctoral studies of law in 1902 and several years later settled in Breslau where he established a legal practice. As his business grew over the next decade and he became enmeshed in Breslau’s art scene, Littmann began acquiring art with an unabated intensity from the late 1910s to the late 1920s. He married Käthe Frankel in 1907 and partnered with the lawyer Max Loewe to establish the firm of Littmann and Loewe around 1921. By the end of the 1920s, Littmann had amassed a collection of more than 6,000 works of art, incorporating some 300 oil paintings, 50 major watercolors and the remainder (more than 5,500 total), predominantly works on paper, including prints and drawings. His pursuit, aside from an unbridled enthusiasm for collecting, appears to have been ultimately to establish a permanent public collection for many of his works. Though he lent some to significant exhibitions in Breslau in 1929, 1930 and 1933, and was a co-founder of the Breslau Jewish Museum, his vision for a public collection went unfulfilled, halted by the Nazis’ rise to power and his ensuing personal misfortune.

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