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    Artist

  • Citroen, Paul, 1896 - 1983

    • Title

  • [Portrait of a woman]

  • Physical Description

    1 lithograph : Ink on paper ; 19 7/8" x 15 1/4", 50.2 cm x 38.7 cm

  • Date

    mid to late 20th century

  • Notes

    It is signed on the upper right corner in ink, and on the bottom right in pencil.

  • Summary

    The portrait is of a woman with her head leaning to the right with her right ear showing. She has very large dark eyes and a long thin nose with dark hair pulled tightly back. She is wearing a black shirt with a large white collar. The background is mostly dark.

  • Subject

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Lithographs

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Paul Citroen grew up in Berlin, his parents were Dutch Jews. He studied art at a young age, and in 1919 studied at the Bauhaus with Paul Klee, Wasilly Kandinsky and Johannes Itten. His painting Metropolis, which he started in 1923, influenced Fritz Lang's film Metropolis. He settled in Amsterdam in 1927, where he initially mainly engaged in photography. In 1937 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Art in the Hague, where he lectured till 1960, except during the war years.

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Citroen, Paul: [Portrait of a woman], Leo Baeck Institute, 2013.171.