Emil Maetzel (1877-1955)

Mädchen mit Blumenvase

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Emil Maetzel (1877-1955)
Mädchen mit Blumenvase
linocut with handcolouring in watercolour, 1916, on firm wove paper, watermark ENGLAND, signed and dated in pencil, one of apparently only two handcoloured impressions, with margins, a deckle edge at the bottom, some surface dirt and one or two creases in places in the margins, generally in very good condition
L. 19¾ x 13 3/8in. (50.4 x 34cm.)
S. 24¾ x 17 1/8in. (63 x 43.7cm.)

Lot Essay

Emil Maetzel left a career in architecture to become a painter. Together with his wife Dorothea and Heinrich Steinhagen he founded the Hamburg Secession in 1919, strongly influence by the style of the Brücke artists.

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