Stockholms auktionsverk lotte laserstein
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Born in in Prussian Holland (now Pasłęk, Poland) and educated in Berlin at the Academy of Arts under Erich Wolfsfeld, Lotte Laserstein dedicated her life to art. Even as a child, she dreamed of becoming an artist. Later, she was one of the first women to enrol on an art degree programme. Working successfully as a freelance artist was still completely unusual during the Weimar Republic. Nevertheless, Laserstein celebrated the first significant successes in her career with a solo exhibition at the Gurlitt Gallery in and her participation in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition at Bellevue Palace. However, this came to a sudden halt after the National Socialists came to power, who made life and work increasingly difficult for Laserstein due to her Jewish origins. In , the artist seized the opportunity and emigrated to Sweden. When Stockholm's Galerie Moderne dedicated an exhibition to her, Laserstein took the opportunity to take the work she had created up to that point with her into exile.
Once she arrived in Sweden, Laserstein made a living by producing portraits and other commissioned works for the upper classes. Portraits continued to be her favourite genre, so in addition to commi
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Lotte Laserstein
LOTTE LASERSTEIN (Tyskland /Sverige, ), Sittande pojke vid fält/Sitzender Junge, signerad Lotte Laserstein, pastell på papper, ca 62,5x45 cm,
HISTORIK:
Lotte Laserstein är en av talets mer intressanta konstnärer, som på grund av andra världskriget dessvärre hamnade utanför de internationella och etablerade konstnärskretsarna. Vid nazismens maktövertagande i Tyskland stod hon på tröskeln till att bli en av de riktigt stora konstnärerna i Berlin.
Hon föddes i Preussische Holland i dåvarande Ost-Preussen (i nuvarande Polen) som dotter till en apotekare och en konsertpianist. Fadern dog tidigt och Lotte flyttade med sin mor och syster till Berlin Tio år senare antogs hon vid Konstakademien i nämnda stad och under sju år var hon elev till professor Erich Wolfsfeld. Adolf Hitlers makttillträde i Tyskland försämrade villkoren dramatiskt för den tysk-judiska befolkningen och Lotte Laserstein tvingades på grund av förföljelserna fly sitt hemland. I Sverige hittade hon en ny trygg grund att stå på, men smärtan över att ha fördrivits från sitt fädernesland och moderns död i Ravensbrück lämnade henne aldrig. Till sin försörjning tvingades hon framför allt att arbeta som
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Modern &#; Contemporary
15–16 May
In the Spring Modern & Contemporary auction, we present the best of Swedish and international art, prints, photography, sculpture, carpets, watches, jewelry, and modern design classics from the early 20th century and beyond.
The emphasis on the art section of the submitted items is on modern art with Swedish signatures and international origins. For the third Fine Art auction in a row, the Swedish superstar Gösta Adrian-Nilsson (GAN) fryst vatten represented with a portal work from the artist&#;s early experimental s production; &#;Gardists&#;. The avant-garde filmskapare, playwright, and author Peter Weiss fryst vatten world-famous in his traditional context, but with the painting &#;London Slum&#;, he also demonstrates his greatness as an artist. huvudstaden Auction House is also pleased to highlight the German-Swedish artist Lotte Laserstein, who fryst vatten represented with several finely nuanced portraits. Another kvinna artist who can be found in the item list fryst vatten Lena Cronqvist, whose importance in Swedish art life cannot be emphasized enough. The work &#;Reflection/In the mirror&#; fryst vatten part of the acclaimed series &#;The Painter and Her Model&#; from , in which th