Helen Torr (American, 1886-1967),

Willi Baumeister, Abstraktion (Konstruktion Rot-Oliv III), 1923

board on thin board

32.2 x 21.8 cm (12.6 x 8.5 in), board: 35,5 x 24 cm (13,9 x 9,4 in)

Byron Browne, Seated Woman, 1936

Mixed Media on paper

17 x 12 1/4 inches

The Light and the Dying

Artist: Gilliam Hornstein (American)

Date: 20th century

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, United States

Pablo Picasso

Max Ernst, L’homme et la femme, Painted circa 1929-1930

oil on board

10 1/2 x 8 5/8 in. (26.7 x 21.8 cm.)

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

Creglingen by Carl Grossberg, 1926

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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On the Bridge, 1903 Edvard Munch