Edvard Munch

Marie Vassilieff (Russian, 1884-1957), Café de la Rotonde, 1921. Oil on canvas, 80 x 64 cm.

L’atelier de l’artiste by Paul Serusier.

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.”

https://www.kulturstiftung.de

Salvo

Hans Hofmann  - American painter, teacher b. 1880

A View of Sintra, Portugal

Artist: Cedric Morris (British, 1889-1982)

Date: 1950s

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection, UK

Description

Among the numerous places Cedric Morris visited during his extensive travels, Portugal was one of his most frequented.

Morris’ first trip to Portugal, with his partner Arthur Lett-Haines and artist-plantswoman Primrose Harley, was in 1950. He returned many times, often in the company of the plantsman Nigel Scott; these trips were primarily plant-hunting expeditions, with the purpose of finding new species of plants native to the area, to add to their full and varied plant collection back home at Benton End, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Morris had always preferred the countryside, and after the war Morris and Lett-Haines had moved to Benton End from London, which included a large house, studio and garden.

Wassily Kandinsky

La Resolution,1938,

Works on paper, Tempera on paper,

48.3 x 22.9 cm.

Private Collection

Henri Matisse, La fenêtre bleue - Issy-les-Moulineaux, été 1913 130.8 x 90.5 cm, Museum of Modern Art, New York