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Grete Wolf-Krakauer

Witkowitz/Moravia 1890 – 1970 Jerusalem

Death mask and deathbed portrait of Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945). 22. And 29. January 1945

Plaster / chalk on paper. 13 x 23 cm / 30,5 x 39 cm (5 ⅛ x 9 in. / 12 x 15 ⅜ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Grete Wolf-Krakauer. Death mask and deathbed portrait of Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945). 22. And 29. January 1945.

Estimate:

EUR 5,000

 

- 7,000

USD 6,340

 

- 8,870

Sold for:

3,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Auctions 229-235

ORANGERIE. Selected Objects, Thursday, 27.11.2014

Information

Plaster / chalk on paper. 13 x 23 cm / 30,5 x 39 cm (5 ⅛ x 9 in. / 12 x 15 ⅜ in.). Death mask dated on the right and signed: 29 I 45 / LÖW. Drawing dated and signed lower right: 22. 1. 1945 / G W Krakauer / inscribed lower left: Else Lasker Schüler. One of three sculpted masks.

Comparable objects: long-term loan in the Zentrum für verfolgte Kunst in the Kunstmuseum Solingen (formerly collection Jürgen Serke) / Museum of Art, Ein Harod (Israel).

Leopold Krakauer (1890-1954) and Grete Wolf-Krakauer (1890-1970), Jerusalem / thence by descent to the present owner, Israel

Meira Perry-Lehmann and Michael Levin (ed.): Leopold Krakauer. Painter and Architect, exh. cat., Jerusalem 1996, p. 56, 57