4383 - Tina Bauer-Pezellen, "Escape from Hunger"

Tina Bauer-Pezellen, "Escape from Hunger" A procession of young mothers with children; in the foreground, a young woman in a red top with a child; in the background, an industrial town faintly visible through the haze; a socially critical depiction, likely addressing the famine of the 1970s under Pinochet, Mixed media on painting board, signed lower left, date covered by the frame (probably the 1970s), titled on the reverse ‘Escape from Hunger - Chile’s Mothers Accuse’, Signs of age; frame slightly bumped; inner dimensions 53 x 68 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 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.