Margarete Macholz, View across the Elbe to the Loschwitz church and the Elbe slope with the suspension railway. 1940. Margarete Macholz1874 Graudenz - 1965 Dresden Oil on painting cardboard. Signed "M.Macholz" and dated u.l.. Framed in a gold-coloured wooden moulding with narrow turning bar and acanthus leaf tendril ornament. Image carrier o. slightly curved. Corner upper left bumped. Margins unevenly trimmed. Painting layer slightly soiled. Small losses in the painting layer in the corners and at the lower margin. Atlierspurig on verso. Measures: 40.5 x 36 cm, overall 49 x 44 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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