Herzing, Minni (1883 Frankfurt/Main - 1968 Karl-Marx-Stadt)

Lot 2033 limit € 40

Oil/hardboard, floral piece with gentian, marsh marigold and bellflower, signed lower left, in a gray frame, approx. 28.5 x 16 cm, with frame approx. 30.5 x 19 cm, the artist first received graphic lessons from her father, a lithographer, then studied at the Hanau Art Academy in the fields of pattern and lettering, flower painting and drawing and copying of landscapes, 1900-03 worked in Frankfurt as a draftsman, 1908 moved to Dresden, there lessons with Georg Gelbke and Willy Kriegel in Dresden, active in Chemnitz from 1935, represented at art exhibitions in Dresden, Stuttgart, Munich, Leipzig, Frankfurt/Main and Chemnitz since the 1920s, active in painting, graphic design, book illustration and porcelain painting, known as "Flower Minni".