Madonna. 1918.
Color Chalk drawing.
Signed and dated in center at bottom. On brownish paper. 43 x 32.5 cm (16.9 x 12.7 in) , the full sheet.
This drawing served as model for the oil painting of the same name from 1919. Verso with grid pattern. [JS].

PROVENANCE: Antiquarian W. Brandes, Brunswick, 65th auction, 1976, lot 1338, no Abb.
Private collection Berlin (acquired in aforementioned auction).

LITERATURE: For the oil painting cf.:
Emil Maetzel/Dorothea Maetzel Johannsen, Ein Künstlerehepaar der Hamburgischen Sezession. Expressionistische Arbeiten. Hamburger Sparkasse, no date and no cat no. (color illu. on p. 2).
Rump, Kay (editor), Der neue Rump. Lexikon der bildenden Künstler Hamburgs, Altonas und der näheren Umgebung. Revised edition of the encyclopedia from Ernst Rump (1912), Neumünster 2005, p. 276.
Karin von Behr, Emil Maetzel. Baumeister- Maler-Sezessionist. ein Künstlerleben der 20er Jahre in Hamburg, Neumünster/Hamburg 2013, illu. p. 90.