Lot: 9002
Date of sale: 31. Sat Aug 2024
Lore Uphoff-Schill. 1890 Düsseldorf -
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Lore Uphoff-Schill. 1890 Düsseldorf – 1968 Worpswede. Farmer’s cottage. Probably 1920s. Mixed media with gouache over charcoal on paper, signed Lore Uphoff lower left, approx. 33 x 49.5 cm, framed behind glass 39 x 55.5 cm, unopened – Lore Schill, daughter of the painter and professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy Adolf Schill, attended the Düsseldorf School of Arts and Crafts in 1907 and studied painting from 1909. In 1910, she undertook a study trip to Holland and met Fritz Uphoff during a stay in Worpswede in 1911, with whom she studied together at the Munich Academy from 1911. After marrying in 1913, the artist couple moved to Düsseldorf. There, Lore devoted herself to portrait and miniature painting as well as etching and book illustration with motifs from oriental fairy tales, exhibiting at the Düsseldorf Kunstpalast in 1917. In 1918 they settled in Worpswede. The period with fairy tale illustrations came to an end, now landscapes were created in all techniques and from the 1940s increasingly flower still lifes, as Lore hardly ever left the house due to a serious leg problem – From the artist’s estate.
