4382 - Tina Bauer-Pezellen, a mother with two children

Tina Bauer-Pezellen, a mother with two children against a red and yellow background reminiscent of a prison cell, a mother with two frightened children; the mother, seen in profile wearing a blue top, is looking to the left - a very powerful, intense portrayal of a woman protecting her children, cardboard covered with paper in a collage-like manner; on the reverse, remnants of a sketch with the note: “I’ll bring you all the magazines and fashion journals approved in the GDR - Berliner Modenblatt - Wiener-Mode Praktische Mode - Das Atelier Modenschau / I will supply you with all magazines authorised in the GDR for teachers, educators and schools [...] / Please give me your subscription order [...]”, monogrammed in the bottom right-hand corner, presumably a call to support the children who deliver the magazines, mixed media on cardboard, signed and dated in the bottom left-hand corner (19)49, signs of wear and tear, reverse side heavily damaged, white frame, inner dimensions 90 x 66.5 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, followed by works on socially critical themes in the style 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.