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Obscured printmaker known as “Heimat-Künstlerin” who created mainly monochrome prints of rural and village life around her domicile Schellerau, Kipsdorf im Erzgebirge (South of Dresden on the Czech border). Two of her prints were published in a still not identified, probably “Third Reich” related, edition with 28 prints by little known printmakers probably all glorifying German life and labour.
Below: “Winterfreuden”, reminding of Walter Klemm’s “Eislaufer”.
gerbrandcaspers@icloud.com
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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M.C. (Marie Claire ?) Cläre Schmidt-Weissenberg
Painter and printmaker. Known by 4 colour woodblock prints. The signature reads M.C. Schmidt-Weissenberg (Marie Claire ?). She may have been the wife (or possibly his sister) of Dr. Kurt Schmidt (Colmnitz near Dresden 22-04-1866- in or after 1932) who lived/worked in 1932 at the same address.
She obviously travelled to America’s West coast, possibly even emigrated.
Read more in “Das HAUS der Frau”, Volume I.