Bouquet with Thistles

Oil painting board, 1960

Technique: Öl-Blumen
Size: 71 x 93

CID: 151019
Collection: Dethleffs/Riedle

Frame Passepartout BP signed dated titled

publisched in the book: Ingrid von der Dollen: "Malerinnen im 20. Jahrhundert, Bildkunst der verschollenen Generation", Birth cohorts 1890-1910, Hirmer Verlag, München 2000

Contrast

The title itself has chosen the artist . The painting surprised: The abundance of shapes and colors covers the thistles. Just corresponding Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann.

From the outside, many of the women of the manufacturer Dethleffs envy their seemingly carefree life . It is said : She has easy to paint , She has also nothing to do. The apparent abundance of their unclouded enjoyment of life covers all difficult and severity . Her injuries caused by thorns they dubbed.

The oil painting revels in the splendor of flowers. The symbiosis between her , painted with fine brushes and delicate color watercolors and this explosion of shapes and colors is a result of their later works . Soon she emerged as a champion of the Karlsruhe School . As a woman at the beginning of the 19th Century, initially mocked : Women belong in the kitchen. Later won awards . From 1940 to 1945, mainly painted their famous concrete watercolors of flowers . It was the reign of the "German art" under the Nazis.

In the painting, "Bouquet with thistles" she built the bridge between her concrete and the abstract art. She goes for it the new way and still remains authentic. Also in the hide his injuries .

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