The same week the aquatint etching by Käthe Wagner was acquired another apple tree (litho) found its way to this collection: by Dutch artist Mien Cambier-van Nooten (1881-1972).
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Käthe exhibited as early as 1906 in Munich, and was represented in the 1934 Wohlgemut & Lissner pictures catalogue with 14 prints (probably all etchings, “Radierungen”) of which 4 are actually shown.
Brave Jewish Käthe choose the certainty of death over deportation by the Nazis. This was phrased by the Nazis euphemistically as “Freitod”: voluntarily death. There was however nothing voluntarily about her choice of life and death.
This print, not a woodblock but an aquatint etching, was acquired with the friendly help of Volker in Berlin who earlier showed his sympathy towards my collecting goals by allowing me to acquire a lovely print by also Jewish artist Wally Peretz-Brutzkus. Finally this artist is represented in this collection (July 2022)
Although I tried hard, very little about her personal life came to my knowledge. She is one of the artist I would love to know more of.
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
gerbrandcaspers@icloud.com
Sabel, Käthe (Groß-Gerau 04-03-1877 - ?)
Painter and graphic artist. Studied in the “Schule des Künstlerinnenverein München” and in “Atelier Heymann”. Studied in Frankfurt-am-Main under Frieda Blanca von Joeden (1878 - in/after 1955).
Otherwise forgotten, obscured and unrecorded artist known by a colour woodblock print (Ebay June 2021) of a young girl with her toddler sister very reminding of (similar) prints by Frida Mentz-Kessel (1878-1969).
Dresslers KHB 1930: Kassel, Prinzenstrasse 16. Member RvbK., “Künstlerinnenverein Kassel”.
See: Heymann-Schule.
See: Mentz Kessel, Frida.
See: Joeden, Frieda Blanca von.