The Tower of Babel under construction

Woodcut, 1951

Technique: Druck-Holzschnitt
Size: 34,5 x 23 cm

CID: 281034
Collection: Dethleffs/Riedle

Biblical topics

Her mother - Fridel Dethleffs-Edelmann - trained Ursula as an artist. Ursula's father, Arist Dethleffs, liked to spoil her alongside his work as the owner of the caravan factory he had built. The grandmother Luise Edelmann, born Schiff - affectionately called Gogge - has brought up Ursula in every respect. After the death of her husband, she moved to the family of her only child. As a devout Christian, grandma often told her granddaughter Ursula what she had read in the Old Testament that day. We find the content of these conversations in many works by Ursula, who was astonished at the time.

Biblical themes were the basis of Ursula's first color woodcuts, which were created from the age of 18.

The Tower of Babel

Jephtas Daughter

 

Frame passepartout VS signed-titled RS dated