Edvard Munch, The Girls On The Pier, C. 1901, Oil On Canvas, 136 X 125 Cm, National Gallery, Oslo

Kate Diehn-Bitt (German, 1900-1978)

An automatic translation:“Born in Schöneberg near Berlin in 1900, Kate (originally: Käthe) Diehn-Bitt was a middle-class daughter. Her training took place exclusively in various private art schools; After early marriage and the birth of her son in 1920, she began studying at the – again – private art academy in Dresden in 1929–31, where Woldemar Winkler (1902–2004) became her teacher, who later described her as “a very clever one , very self-confident, emancipated personality”. The Dresden art scene around Otto Dix, Otto Griebel and others must have been as impressive for Diehn-Bitt as the political atmosphere in the city. 

Back in Rostock, she set up her first studio in 1933; In 1935 she exhibited together with the sculptor Hertha von Guttenberg in the gallery of Wolfgang Gurlitt in Berlin - it would take until 1948 until another exhibition is dedicated to her in Schwerin. 

During the Nazi era, Kate Diehn-Bitt’s stepfather, Dr. Leo Glaser persecuted as a Jew; she herself and her work were deemed  “foreign”. After the end of the war, Diehn-Bitt was initially involved in cultural policy in the newly founded GDR, but after being sentenced to paint “not in a forward-looking or optimistic manner”, she withdrew from all functions in the 1950s and died in Rostock in 1978. All of the political-historical upheavals of the 20th century in Germany can be seen in her biography and work.”

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Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887-1948), Für Tilly, 1923. Oil and turning handle on panel, 25.7 x 16 x 4.9 cm.

The Brew

2023

Noak Esbjörnsson

After Diebenkorn

Willem de Kooning,January 1st, 1956

oil on canvas

L’atelier de l’artiste by Paul Serusier.

Dematerialization Near the Nose of Nero by Salvador Dali, 1947.

Edvard Munch, Helge Rode, 1908 48.5 x 41 cm Oil on canvas

Léopold Survage (French, 1878-1968) - Le Soleil, oil on canvas, 72.9 x 92.1 cm (1938)