Waltraud Lamers - Expressionist Painting

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Offered is this wonderful expressionist still life with the motif of the studio of the artist Waltraud Lamers.

More Info about Waltraud Lamers in the extra info, you can choose at the end of the describtion.

The picture offered here, oil on firm cardboard, represents her painting studio in an expressive way.
It was probably made between the late 1930s and 1950s.
Reddish tones dominate the picture, which was also created with a strong impasto in paint and spatula technique.
Really even more beautiful than the photos show.
A very intimate picture from a painter's point of view, as compared to a landscape it shows the personal core of the work.

The picture is in very good condition and does not require any restoration. The varnish is new.
The wooden frame with white chalk paint is original and belongs to the picture. This shows some patina, but it fits beautifully and provides a nice contrast to this image of modernity.
Both the picture and the frame are each signed and numbered with the estate stamp of Waltraud Lamers on the reverse.
Dimensions picture without frame: 82 cm x 60 cm.
Dimensions picture with frame: 97 cm x 76 cm.

Shipping is of course no problem.

"Waltraud Lamers was born in Münster in 1908 as the 5th child into a family of artists. Her father was a church/glass painter, where she worked from an early age.
In 1925, at the age of 17, she applied to the Munich School of Applied Arts and then to the Academy of Fine Arts, where she began professional training.
There she also met the Swiss painter Hans Hotz from Biel, whom she married in 1931 and settled with him in Niedau, Switzerland, in 1934 after completing her studies.
She was heavily influenced by the Expressionist artists of the time. She deals with the works of Macke, Kandinsky and Franz Marck. She paints animals, experiments with different materials and techniques, ornaments and expressive.
In 1935 she received a federal art grant, which she also completed. Not normal as an artist/woman at the time.
In 1935, 1936 and 1938 the Frankhauser gallery in Biel showed her and her husband's works.
In 1937 the Kunsthalle Bern shows her work.
In 1941 she was selected for the 20th "National Art Exhibition" in the Kunstmuseum Luzern.
However, her husband succumbed to alcoholism in the 1940s, so that they divorced at the end of the 1940s.
The war years were also a time of standstill in Switzerland.
However, she continued to live and work in the house they had bought together until her death in 1992.
Up until the 1960s she was considered the most important visual artist in the Swiss region of Seeland.
She still exhibits at various exhibitions, with a short stay in the USA.
Due to illness, however, her later works change.
In 1992 she died in Switzerland."