3981 - Rudolph Riemerschmid, Portrait of an Elderly Lady

Rudolph Riemerschmid, Portrait of an Elderly Lady Portrait of an elderly woman gazing kindly at the viewer, charcoal, partly smudged and with highlights in white, c. 1910, ligated signature ‘RRiemerschmid’ in the top right-hand corner, signs of ageing, framed under a mat and behind glass, mat dimensions approx. 56.5 x 50.5 cm. Artist information: German painter (1873, Munich - 1953, Rieden near Murnau), studied at the Karlsruhe Academy under Friedrich Fehr, worked for the Munich magazine ‘Jugend’ from 1904 to 1920, a leading exponent of Munich Art Nouveau, member of the Munich Secession as well as the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany, the German Artists’ Association in Weimar and the Munich artists’ association “Der Bund”, active in Munich and Aiterbach, Source: Thieme-Becker, Saur “Bio-Bibliographical Encyclopaedia of Artists”, Dressler, Müller-Singer, Ries and the internet.