Dogwood in Oriental or Mexican vase.
Rosemarie Manke is a still unidentified (German) printmaker and painter. This surprising and wonderfully Japanese composition was acquired Febr. 2023. Any help discovering who she was is very welcome. You will find all I was able to reveal from the Internet clicking her Artist Name cartouche. It is not much, but hopefully more will come forward with the help of readers and passers-by.
It is possible she emigrated to Monterey, California USA (see biography)
Rosemarie Manke (? - after 1967/90)
Painter, illustrator and printmaker. As a printmaker known by a probably 1950-60s low edition (15) print titled “Vaas” and by one painting auctioned in 2011 (Persimon fruit).
Known as illustrator by a handful of children books published 1966-67 by (Christian-evangelical) "St.-Johannis-Druckerei C. Schweickhardt” in Lahr in Schwarzwald and “Brunnquell-Verlag der Bibel und Missions-Stiftung” in Metzingen-an-der-Erms near Stuttgart.
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A Rosemarie Manke exhibited in a solo show of watercolours April 1-30 1990 at Pebble Beach “Every Occasion Coast Gallery”: the Lodge at Pebble Beach Monterey California USA. (Famous and posh golf resort).
(Monterey Life, Volume 11, Number 4 Page 103)
Achenbach-Jünemann, Hanna (Maria Johanna) (Dortmund 02-12-1892 - 01-11-1982 Siegen)
Painter, graphic artist and printmaker. Daughter of civil engineer and factory owner Johann Konrad Jünemann and Maria Zimmermann (born Würzburg). Studied 1914-1919 in Düsseldorf “Kunstakademie” where she met her future husband.
Married 1919 painter Hans Achenbach (1891-1972) and had two daughters. As a printmaker known from hand coloured linocut prints.
Her work was very much appreciated and exhibited in Essen “Folkwang Museum”, Wuppertal “Städtischen Museum”, Kassel “Landesmuseum”, Marburg “Kunsthistorisches Institut” and Hagen “Städtisches Museum”.
Member of the Siegerland Artist group (ASK).
