Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

Untitled Theosophical Subject

1920s

woodcut on tissue-thin paper

plate 33,5 × 57,8 cm 

sheet approx. 46,9 x 62 cm

signed in pencil lower left

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Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

Tod (Death)

1920s

woodcut

60 × 29 cm

signed in pencil

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Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

Mountain, with text by poet Friedrich Hölderlin

1925

woodcut on sand-colored paper

80 × 31,5 cm (framed 97 x 55 cm)

signed in pencil bottom left

dated in pencil bottom right: 1925

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Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

Portrait of author Gustav Meyrink

1925

woodcut on tissue-thin paper

53,5 x 46,8 cm

signed and titled in pencil lower left: "Gertraud Reinberger.- Gustav Meyrink.-"

inscribed in pencil lower right: "Handdruck.-"

dated in pencil "1925" lower right along the bottom edge of the margin

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Austrian writer Gustav Meyrink (1868-1932) is known for his works of supernatural fiction.

Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

Buddhafrauen [Buddha Women]

1920s

woodcut

82 x 32 cm

signed in pencil 

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Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

Traumgesicht [Dream Face]

1927

woodcut

80 x 31 cm

signed in pencil lower left

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Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

"Sonnenuntergang" ["Sunset"]

1924 (1925?)

woodcut

80 x 45 cm

signed and dated in pencil

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The Daulton Collection owns a second impression of this print, "Sonnenuntergang":

Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

"Sonnenuntergang" ["Sunset"]

1925

woodcut

79 x 44,5 cm

signed and titled in pencil lower left: "Gertraud Reinberger.- Sonnenuntergang.-"

dated and inscribed in pencil lower right: "1925. Handdruck'"

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Provenance: private collection, Vienna

Discussion:

"The Viennese graphic artist and woodcut artist Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter is one of Franz Čižek's lesser-known students at the Vienna School of Applied Arts. She was born as the second eldest of four siblings in the master builder family Brausewetter, founders of the still existing company Pittel & Brausewetter, and at the age of 14 she was already in the youth class of Čižek, which she was to direct after his death from 1946 to 1948. The first major artistic commission for the eleven-year-old was the Annunciation scene, which was still entirely committed to Art Nouveau and was executed in tempera technique in 1914 in the porch of the Church of St. Othmar in Mödling, which her father had built in 1904. In 1916 she made her first woodcuts. After the end of the First World War she returned to Čižek at the School of Applied Arts, where she studied in the modern art department until 1921 and subsequently dealt with theosophical and anthroposophical themes. Some of her woodcuts dating to the 1920s are still rooted in the ornamental practice of Secession art and Art Deco."  WFA.

"The present picture shows a sleeping female figure with closed eyes and bowed head. Night, sleep, and dreams are discussed as different reality and mirrors of human consciousness. According to anthroposophical understanding, the 'dream consciousness' is a transformed rudiment of the 'image consciousness' that man had on the 'old moon.' The dream is associated with vivid images and intense feelings; the ego-consciousness in the dream is only vaguely present, since the dream does not sufficiently differentiate between inside and outside: 'We swim together with our dream world and cannot really distinguish ourselves from it.' The surreal moment is particularly expressed in 'Sunset' through the hair, in which the otherwise naked woman is partially wrapped and which must have reminded the artist, inspired by Christian imagery, of the depictions of Mary Magdalene, which go back to the Legenda Aurea. A mystical power seems to emanate from the setting sun, which is reflected in the lake and illuminates the scene. The fact that the stars are already in the sky takes the scene further away from the sphere of waking everyday reality."  WFA

Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

"Blühende Baum" ["Blooming Tree"]

1923

woodcut

79,7 x 44 cm

signed and titled in pencil lower left: "Gertraud Reinberger.- blühende Baum.-"

inscribed in pencil lower right: "Handdruck."

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Provenance: private collection, Vienna

Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter "[s]tudied at the School of Arts and Crafts in the youth art class of Franz Cizek [in Vienna] .... [She was preccupied] with theosophy, anthroposophy, and religious themes. From 1915, for several years [she] associated with the writer Gustav Meyrink. In 1931, the Albertina purchased 58 [of her] woodcuts; a year later, [she] participated in the exhibition Christian Art in the Secession in Vienna. After Cizek's death, [from] 1946 to 1948, [she was] head of the youth art class. [Her work reflected] stylistic development between fin de siècle, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco, [and an] interest in ornament, line, rhythm, [and] light and shadow. [Her subjects included] female nudes, women, themes around love, life, death, closeness, tenderness, symbolic and iconic representations. Created mainly woodcuts, [with] figural representations comparable to Carry Hauser." WFA

Gertraud Reinberger-Brausewetter (Weimar 1879-1958 Berlin)

St. Francis with Birds

1920s

woodcut

70 x 30 cm

signed in pencil

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Symbolismus

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