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Although known as an etcher represented in Reinhard Piper’s 1904 catalogue with 9 etchings of which none were ever seen it lasted until Januari 2025 before a first example by her as a woodblock artist surfaced in a German auction./
Read her and her sisters Gertrud and Elfriede’s interesting biography in the accompanying this collection “le Vite”: the lives of the pioneering generation of women colour woodblock printmakers.
Her 14 year younger sister Gertrud, who’d studied under Lovis Corinth, is known as a painter and etcher (below with self portrait )
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).