Lot 71: Gabriele Stock-Schmilinsky

Gabriele Stock-Schmilinsky (1903 Hamburg - 1984 Hamburg). Häuser am Tegernsee. Um 1938 Oil on canvas . Monogrammed lower right. With inscription 'Gmund / Tegernsee' on the stretcher.70,5 x 90 cm (27,7 x 35,4 in). Provenienz: From the estate of the artist. Ausstellung: Gabriele Stock-Schmilinsky. 1903-1984. Gemälde und Aquarelle, Hamburgische Landesbank, 27. June 2002 - 17. January 2003, cat.no. 8 (with the label on the stretcher). Gabriele Stock-Schmilinsky began training as an artist in 1922-25 at the private Gerda Koppel art school in Hamburg before serving an apprenticeship as a bookbinder. From 1930 until 1933 she studied art at the Landeskunstschule am Lerchenfeld. In 1937/38 the artist trained in art education in commercial art at the Werkkunstschule, before accepting an appointment as head of the private Gerda Koppel art school in Berlin. Artistically speaking, Stock-Schmilinsky was at first influenced by Expressionism, working mainly in the medium of watercolour because it was most suited to her spontaneous approach to her work, that was inspired by fleeting impressions. In the 1950s the painter was preoccupied with Cubism, later addressing herself to Tachism - her work became increasingly abstract without, however, becoming entirely non-representational. The Hamburg artist's aeuvre is informed by a lifelong delight in aesthetic experimentation. She has also enriched the art of her native city with numerous works associated with architecture. [KR]In good condition. A few smaller spots with minor craquelé. In the area of the sky with two small, probably retouched, stains.