UHDEN, MARIA1892 Coburg - 1918 Miunic


Title: Brennende Stadt.
Date: 1917.
Technique: Gouache on brown paper.
Measurement: 37,5 x 30cm.
Notation: Monogrammed lower centre: M.U.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Not examined out of the frame.


Provenance:
- Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin (label)
- Private collection South Germany
- Fischer Kunsthandel & Editions, Berlin
- Private collection North Rhine-Westphalia

Literature:
- Storch, Wolfgang: Georg Schrimpf and Maria Uhden - Leben und Werk. With a catalogue raisonné, Berlin 1985, cat. rais. no. 1917/6, ill.


- Uhden is considered an important figure in the German female avant-garde
- Depiction of war in a mystical and symbolic setting typical of her work
- Rare gouache from the artist's very small oeuvre, of which only around 20 unique works are known.