Stillleben mit Bananen. 1910.
Oil on cardboard.
Hans 4. Buchholz/Zitzewitz 4. Signed in upper right. Inscribed and numbered in pencil on the reverse by a hand other than that of the atist. 41.3 x 39.3 cm (16.2 x 15.4 in).
[KT].

• Maetzel-Johannsen was co-founder of the Hamburg Secession and an importnat female protagonist of Expressionism.
• A rare still life from her early creative days.
• The genre of the still life was her most important field of experimentation and decisive for her development towards modernity.
• The long due rediscovery and recognition of her creation began with the exhibitions "Einfühlung und Abstraktion. Die Moderne der Frauen in Deutschland" n 2016 and "Ein Künstlerpaar der Moderne: Emil Maetzel und Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen" in 2019.

PROVENANCE: Zimmer Collection.
Galerie Herold, Hamburg.
Private collection Bavaria (acquired from the above in 1993).

EXHIBITION: Gedächtnisausstellung zum 100. Geburtstag von Dorothea Maetzel-Johannsen 1886-1930, Galerie Herold, Hamburg, November 1986.

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