Monja mit Taube. 1926.
Watercolor.
Cf. Hans 133-135, cf. Buchholz/Zitzewitz 133-135. Signed in lower left. On firm wove paper. 59.5 x 46.5 cm (23.4 x 18.3 in), almost the full sheet.
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• Maetzel-Johannsen was co-founder of the Hamburg Secession and an importnat female protagonist of Expressionism.
• The sensitive motif "Monja mit Taube", for which her youngest daughter Monika (1917–2010) was sitter, is one of her best child portraits.
• In 1926, the artist made 3 similar oil portraits of the then nine-year-old girl, this watercolor was part of the process of creation.
• The long due rediscovery and recognition of her creation began with the exhibitions "Einfühlung und Abstraktion. Die Moderne der Frauen in Deutschland" n 2016 and "Ein Künstlerpaar der Moderne: Emil Maetzel und Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen" in 2019.

PROVENANCE: Buchholz + Pyroth Kunsthandel, Hamburg.
Private collection Bavaria (acquired from the above in 2004).

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