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This print was found several years ago in a British gallery, signed E. Gericke. After some research it was attributed to Berlin book illustrator Else Gericke and was a long time the only known to me example of a graphic work by her. Writing her representation for this website and fact checking a second work happened to have surfaced and is currently offered the Frankfurt Gallery of Joseph Fach, attributed to Else Gericke-HEINTZE. Her biography (besides some mentioning as illustrator working in Berlin nothing came to light) was updated and the new example archived. A seated nude (drawing ) signed E. Gericke is another example.

Without a full name she could be confused with Eugenie Gericke a like-wise obscured and little known Düsseldorf artist known with her also artistic sister Helene Gericke. And then there’s Katharine Gericke: she is represented in this collection.

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Helene Ladstätter (1892 - 1970 Vienna)

Austrian printmaker. Although her identity (family) is still a mystery she is mentioned in an article in “the Studio Magazine” 1924, Vol. 87, page 136-137. Here she is mentioned (and praised) as “Miss H. Ladstätter”. In the article were also mentioned Dr. Emma Bormann (1887-1974) and a print entitled “Dorfstrasse”. She exhibited in 1939 together with printmakers William Giles (1872-1939), Yoshijiro Urushibara (1888-1953), Engelbert Lap (1886-1970) and others at Colnaghi Art Gallery in Bondstreet London. This firm in the 1920-30s had strong connections with the art business in America possibly explaining her prints surfacing in America. She is known by 4 (alpine) woodblock prints sold/auctioned in recent years in America and England.
She was probably a member of the “Verein für Bildende Künstlerinnen Österreichs” (VBKÖ) because in 1970 her obituary is kept in its archives

Exhibited 1947 in the Große Östereichische Kunstausstellung with (a.o.) Valerie Praschniker and Elfriede Miller-Hauenfels.

Dear print lover, passing-by visitor and reader:

While this new gallery-museum site is under construction (being build-up, stocked and arranged) priority must be given to first add all the represented artists in the index with works from the collection and if possible with the examples from the archives.

During construction the site is open to visitors, questions, feedback and suggestions.

Gerrie

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