Helene Merz (1890 - 1870)
The fishing boats-harbour scene location is still unknown. The next three examples are of the city of Passau at the confluence of rivers Donau and Inn at the Austrian border. She is represented because she was a student of Martha Schrag and I just happen to like her crude and “simple” drawings with the etching needle directly onto the etching plate, which leaves no room for mistakes and proves a confident sketching and drawing hand
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Helene Merz is not known to have create woodblock prints but is known as a painter and an etcher.
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).