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    Artist

  • Stumpp, Emil, 1886-1941

    • Title

  • Portrait of Maria Orska

  • Physical Description

    Print : lithograph ; 19.75" x 15" ; 50.1 x 39 cm

  • Date

    1927

  • Summary

    Bust-view, with one arm wrapped around armchair. Emphasis on the actress's face, which has a melancholy expression, relieved by a slight smile.

    Signed, dedicated and dated by the artist in the lower right, Signed by the sitter at the center. Lulu 1926.

  • Depicted

    Orska, Maria, 1893-1930

  • Subject

    Actors; Portraits, Women

  • Medium

    Prints

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Biographical/Historical Information

The actress Maria Orska (1883-1930) was celebrated in the 1920's, personifying the 'Femme Fatale'. She commited suicide in Vienna.

Emil Stumpp was an artist and teacher born in Neckarzimmern in southeastern Germany on March 17, 1886. He studied art and humanities in Karlsruhe. Stumpp reached some fame in Germany for his portraits of well-known people in the 1930s. He was commissioned for a portrait of Adolf Hitler, but when it was declared “unflattering” Stumpp was arrested and sentenced to one year in prison. He died from conditions in a jail in Stuhm (Sztum, Poland) in 1941.

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Stumpp, Emil: Portrait of Maria Orska, Leo Baeck Institute, 78.1691.