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    Artist

  • Loewengard, Kurt, 1895-1940

    • Title

  • Portrait of Catherine Herrlins

  • Physical Description

    1 drawing : crayon, watercolor on paper ; 8.75 in x 6.25 in ; 22 cm x 16 cm

  • Date

    1926

  • Notes

    Name of portrait sitter written in lower left-hand corner. Initialed by artist, dated 1926, and location of Paris listed in lower right-hand corner. Attached to the back of the original frame was a postcard for a "Gedaechtnisausstellung" (memorial exhibition) for Kurt Loewngard, to take place at Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co. in Hamburg from January 14- February 8, 1947.

  • Summary

    Portrait depicts the upper half of the sitter, seated at a table and at three quarter pose. The sitter is a young woman with blond hair tucked underneath a headwrap. She wears a pale pink top blouse with a black tie at the neck. The portrait is rendered in a quick and sketchy manner.

  • Part Of

    The Hertha and Robert Solmitz Collection, AR 25918

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Biographical/Historical Information

Kurt Loewengard was born in Hamburg, German in 1895. He had a Jewish background. He served in the military in Russia and France from 1916-18 and then studied art at the Bauhaus school in Weimar from 1919-20. After his studies, Loewengard returned to Hamburg to work as an artist, mostly working in an expressionist style. He regularly took part in exhibitions as part of the Hamburg Secession group and from the local Jewish Kulturbund. His work often depicted scenes and characters from the nightclubs in Paris and Hamburg, or else depicted landscapes and seascapes. In 1935, Loewengard's work was banned from being exhibited because of Nazi persecution, and in 1937 his work was confiscated from public collections in Hamburg because it was labeled "Entartete Kunst" (or degenerate art). He emigrated to the island of Sylt (in the Nordfriesland district of Germany) in 1938, and then to London in 1939. He died in poverty in London in 1940, with many of his paintings and artworks having been destroyed.

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Loewengard, Kurt: Portrait of Catherine Herrlins, Leo Baeck Institute, 2020.05.