Sophie Doerr, Schwälmer Farmer's Wife in Devotion. Between 1903- 1935. SophieDoerr1870 Kassel - 1936 Kassel. Oil on canvas. Signed on the right "S. DOERR". Verso on the stretcher inscribed in pencil r.mi. "Fräulein Dörr" as well as locally inscribed "Cassell" [sic!]. Painting layer with small scratches, i.a. in the area of the hands. Slight canvas deformation at the lower left margin due to missing nail at the tensioning edge as well as pressure mark at the lower right. Climatic edge in the area of the stretcher centre bar with tiny missing parts of the painting layer. Small canvas hole o.mi. in the background. Circumferentially in the marginal area impressions of former framing. Yellowed varnish and isolated brownish spots on the surface. Dimensions: 110 x 90,8 cm. Sophie Doerr 1870 Kassel - 1936 Kassel German painter and draughtswoman, self-taught. Came to the artists' colony Willingshausen / Schwalm in 1903 through the painter Wilhelm Thielmann. From then on, the artist stayed there annually until her death. At first Doerr was supported and influenced especially by Carl Bantzer, after World War I by Paul Baum, with whom she also worked in the Habichtswald near Kassel, adopting his pen and watercolor technique. Stays also at the Fulda between Körle and Guxhagen as well as in Niederbeisheim near Melsungen. 1929 briefly in Berlin. Doerr painted mainly idyllic landscapes, especially woods, avenues, village and courtyard views, as well as still lifes of flowers.