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Eva Knauer (ar. 1900 - after 1973)

Forgotten artist who worked as teacher at drawing in Königsberg (Kaliningrad) Lyceum (school for girls - “Höhere Töchter”. This hand coloured 1943 “Blaumeisen” (great tits) is very reminding of Walter Klemm’s print (that appeared slightly altered in a magazine (“der Kunstwart”) as a “winter-print”. This print showed up in an online auction April 2024. She was the daughter of a Königberg architect Franz Knauer. All biographical help on Eva Knauer is very welcomed.

The only digital references to her existence was found in “Dressler’s Kunsthandbuch” 1930 and the Königsberg only surviving “Adressbuch” edition 1935.

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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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Read more about the artists, their lives, families and careers in the new and extensive Artist Lexicon: “DAS HAUS DER FRAU, the short biographies” accompanying this exhibition.

Hundreds of new artist biographies, a private publication in 2 Volumes written conveniently in English.

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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.