Lot: 9263
Date of sale: 31. Sat Aug 2024
Emma Ritter. 1878 Vechta - 1972 Oldenb
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Emma Ritter. 1878 Vechta – 1972 Oldenburg. Lake in the mountains. 1928. oil on hardboard, monogrammed ER lower left, 27.5 x 31.5 cm, dated verso, framed behind glass 56 x 59.5 cm, unopened – Provenance: Kunsthandel Gerd Pleus, Oldenburg – Ritter studied under Lovis Corinth, among others, and maintained contact with the representatives of the Berliner Brücke, whom she had met in Dangast, throughout her life. She was particularly close friends with Lyonel Feininger and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and moved into Schmidt-Rottluff’s Berlin studio when he was called up for military service. In 1923 she returned to Oldenburg for family reasons and remained there until 1939. In 1943, back in Berlin, her previous work was almost completely destroyed by a bomb. The present painting is thus a very rare example of the work of a German Expressionist who has remained relatively unknown. Literature: Udo Elerd: A Bavarian lake in Oldenburg, in: kulturland oldenburg, 1.2015, No. 163, pp. 36-39
