Edward Hopper: Ryder’s House (1933)

Sam Francis (1923-1994) [USA] ~ ‘Untitled’, 1973. Acrylic on paperboard (116.2 x 78.7 cm).

Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960-1988), Untitiled, 1986. Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 120 cm.

Creglingen by Carl Grossberg, 1926

Kazuo Shiraga (1924-2008) [Japan] — ‘Chiansei Kinhyoshi’, 1962. Oil on canvas (195 x 130 cm).

Ceramic cubist sculpture – Roger Capron, Vallauris

On the Bridge, 1903 Edvard Munch

 Eye of Horus , fragment of an Ancient Egyptian Glass Inlay

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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