Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)
"Blühende Baum" ["Blooming Tree"]
1923
woodcut
79,7 x 44 cm
signed and titled in pencil lower left: "Gertraud Reinberger.- blühende Baum.-"
inscribed in pencil lower right: "Handdruck."
The Daulton Collection
Provenance: private collection, Vienna
Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter "[s]tudied at the School of Arts and Crafts in the youth art class of Franz Cizek [in Vienna] .... [She was preccupied] with theosophy, anthroposophy, and religious themes. From 1915, for several years [she] associated with the writer Gustav Meyrink. In 1931, the Albertina purchased 58 [of her] woodcuts; a year later, [she] participated in the exhibition Christian Art in the Secession in Vienna. After Cizek's death, [from] 1946 to 1948, [she was] head of the youth art class. [Her work reflected] stylistic development between fin de siècle, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco, [and an] interest in ornament, line, rhythm, [and] light and shadow. [Her subjects included] female nudes, women, themes around love, life, death, closeness, tenderness, symbolic and iconic representations. Created mainly woodcuts, [with] figural representations comparable to Carry Hauser." WFA