Margarete Macholz, Fishing hut on Rügen. 1937. Margarete Macholz1874 Graudenz - 1965 Dresden. Oil on canvas. Signed "M.Macholz" and dated u.r.. Framed behind glass, in a narrow wooden moulding with groove. Canvas with small deformations. Painting support with a tear (ca. 8,5 cm) u.mi. as well as at the right margin (3 cm) and with a hole u.r. (ca. 2 cm). Margins unevenly trimmed as well as with marginal lesions and loss of painting layer. Corner lower right creased and with tears in the painting layer. Dimensions: 56 x 42 cm, overall 63 x 50 cm. Margarete Macholz 1874 Graudenz - 1965 Dresden Painter from Dresden, studied at the HfBK in Dresden under Ferdinand Dorsch, Georg Erler and Georg Lührig. Margarete Machholz mainly painted still lifes, landscapes, flowers and figurative.

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