4384 - Tina Bauer-Pezellen, Beggar on the Street

Tina Bauer-Pezellen, Beggar on the Street A beggar by a park wall, his gaze downcast, barefoot, with a sign reading ‘blind’ hanging round his neck, holding out a hat to ask for donations, in the foreground, a young lady with a pram, looking at the man in alarm; in the background, a girl and another figure on the pavement; in the background, bare trees and a city; a work of social criticism from the post-war period; stylistic similarities to works by Otto Dix; mixed media on a painting board, signed and dated 1948 in the lower left-hand corner, inscribed on the reverse, old shipping label, remnants of other labels, titled in pencil ‘Blinder Bettler’ (‘Blind Beggar’), slight signs of ageing, white frame chipped, inner dimensions 70 x 51 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.