4086 - Georg Hoffmann, Portrait of Erna Battig

Georg Hoffmann, Portrait of Erna Battig Half-length portrait of a woman seated in an elegant Art Nouveau armchair, wearing a black tulle dress; glazed portrait painting, oil on canvas, signed, dated and inscribed ‘G. Hoffmann 1921 Fiester”, unverified information on the reverse of the canvas regarding the subject and the artist: “The subject is: Mrs Erna Battig (Sodingen in Westphalia), née Heyer, born on 26 August 1885 in Herten, Recklinghausen district (Westphalia) - painted by Georg Hoffmann (born 28 January 1885 in Berlin)”, and is thus the daughter of Hermann Heyer (1849-1925), then General Manager of the Mont-Cenis Colliery, and Maria Katharina Christina Ufermann (1852-1941), from 1909 the wife of Rudolf Battig (1883, Heidersdorf - 1957, Essen), who was General Manager of the Mont-Cenis Colliery from 1910 to 1932 and Managing Director of the “Industriehilfe Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung” in Sodingen from 1921 to 1928; shows signs of age, framed, inner dimensions approx. 96.5 x 76.5 cm. Artist information: also known as Georg Hoffmann-Freiberg, after his adopted home; German painter, graphic artist and interior designer (1885, Berlin - after 1930), Member of the Reich Association of Fine Artists of Germany, the Berlin Artists’ Association and the German Artists’ Association in Dresden; mentioned as working in Freiberg, Saxony, around 1930; source: Vollmer, Saur, *Bio-Bibliographical Artists’ Encyclopaedia*, Dressler 1930, and the internet.