Gertrud Mediz [Krems, Austria 1893-1975 (1935?) Zurich], also known as Gertrude (sometimes Gertrud or Trude) Honzatko (sometimes Hozatko)-Mediz 

Study for a Book Cover or a Title page

circa 1909

watercolor (or gouache) over pencil on stiff tan paper

32,5 x24,3 cm (image)

signed lower right: "Trude Mediz"

titled center: "Wachauer Marsch von Hans Lernet"

dedicated to the educator Dr. Anton Becker top center: "Dem Direktor Dr Anton Becker in Oberhollabrunn gewidmet" ["Dedicated to Director Dr. Anton Becker in Oberhollabrunn"]

The Daulton Collection

Dr. Anton Becker (Budkau, Moravia 1868-1955 Vienna) was an Austrian teacher, geographer, and conservator of historical monuments.  In 1909, he became director of the Imperial and Royal Educational Institution in Oberhollabrunn [k. k. Bildungsanstalt in Oberhollabrunn], where he had previously worked and where teachers for the Austrian civil service were trained. Shortly thereafter, he moved to the Lower Austrian Teachers' Academy at the Pädagogium in Vienna.

Gertrud Mediz likely created this watercolor as a student work, circa 1909, when she was 16.