3940 - Tina Bauer-Pezellen, illustrative drawing

Tina Bauer-Pezellen, illustrative drawing A young girl begins to explain something to her friends; ink brush and white overpainting on parchment, c. 1960, monogrammed ‘B P.’ in the bottom right-hand corner, mounted on backing paper and inscribed here “Christel begins to tell her story” (page 2), minor signs of wear, sheet dimensions approx. 23.5 x 26 cm. Artist information: born Klementine Rosa Agnes Pezellen, Austrian-German painter and graphic artist (1897, Cattaro/Dalmatia - 1979, Weimar), 1917-24 attended the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt and 1921-22 studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts, this was followed by works on socially critical themes in the styles of Verism, New Objectivity and Expressive Realism; 1923-24: studied at the School of Applied Arts in Munich under Richard Riemerschmid, 1930-32: studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich; in 1937 moved to Weimar with her husband, the photographer Siegbert Bauer; during the Nazi era, her work was classified as ‘degenerate’; in the 1950s, she turned her attention to lithography, Undertook study trips to the south of France and Bulgaria; from the 1960s onwards, she increasingly turned to landscape and still-life painting; she also worked as an illustrator. Source: Eisold, ‘Artists in the GDR’ and Wikipedia.