Charlotte Hilmer, Portrait of a Woman in a Blue Dress, 1955, Watercolor

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Charlotte Hilmer
1909 Hamburg – 1958 (suicide) ibid.

'Portrait of a Seated Woman in a Blue Dress'
Watercolor on Ingres … Read more Charlotte Hilmer
1909 Hamburg – 1958 (suicide) ibid.

'Portrait of a Seated Woman in a Blue Dress'
Watercolor on Ingres paper (Hahnemühle) ---unframed---
Signature stamp lower right, circa 1955
Size: 62 x 48.3 cm

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Charlotte Hilmer
Painter, draughtswoman, printmaker.

Wife of the artist Arnold Hilmer (1908 Hamburg – 1993 ibid.).

1928-29 Studied at the Hamburg State School of Art
1929-30 Studied at the Königsberg Academy of Art
1930-33 Studied at the Stuttgart Academy of Art

Charlotte Hilmer's work includes "blossom and flower paintings in luminous colors, landscapes with circling suns in flowing lines. Figure paintings in statuesque stillness, archaic feminine primal forms" (Maike Bruhns).

Solo Exhibitions:

In 1939, she had a studio exhibition in Hamburg with her husband.

1950, 1953, 1955: Voksheim Cultural Association, Hamburg.

1956: Museum of Ethnology, Hamburg (with Arnold Hilmer).

1958: Hamburger Kunsthalle.

1960: Märkisches Museum, Witten.

1964: Hanna Bekker vom Rath Art Gallery, Frankfurt am Main.

1999: Herold Gallery, Hamburg (with Arnold Hilmer).

Collections:

Hamburger Kunsthalle
Collection of the Hamburger Sparkasse
Collection of Dr. Maike Bruhns, Hamburg
Märkisches Museum, Witten This piece has an attribution mark,
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