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Lotte Laserstein

Frauenporträt
1940er

pastel, chalk and charcoal on handmade paper

63 × 48 cm / 24 13/16 × 18 7/8 in

Signed

The woman is probably Margarete (Madeleine) Jaraczewsky, a friend of Lotte Laserstein's who modelled for her in Sweden.

The work is registered in the Lotte Laserstein Archive Krausse, Berlin, and due to its quality is included in the list of representative works created in Sweden, which supplements the catalogue raisonné 1910-1937

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Expertise

We thank Dr Anna-Carola Krausse, Berlin, for the confirmation of the work’s authenticity

Provenance

Privatsammlung Skandinavien; Privatsammlung Berlin

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, Neuerwerbungen Herbst 2024, Düsseldorf 2024

About Lotte Laserstein

Lotte Laserstein (1898-1993) is a painter of the “lost generation”, who had her breakthrough between the two world wars and was no longer recognized in Germany after 1945.
After studying at the Akademische Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin, her career took off in 1931 with her 1st solo …