Gitta Gurlitt Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1894 - d. 1956

Gitta Gurlitt was born in 1894 in Graz as the first of three daughters of the classical archaeologist Wilhelm Gurlitt. Perhaps influenced by the cultural and artistic coined great Gurlitt family -her grandfather was the landscape painter Louis Gurlitt, her uncle Fritz was an art dealer and gallery owner and her uncle Cornelius an art historian- she became, like her cousin Cornelia, a painter. Her favorite medium seems to have been the watercolor. Her cousin Wolfgang, who continued the gallery of his father Fritz after his death, showed in 1956 a memorial exhibition of works by Gitta Gurlitt.