Ida Teichmann (Frankfurt am Main 1874-1945? Frankfurt am Main), also known as Idi Teichmann

Self-Portrait

oil on canvas

circa 1910

54 x 54 cm

signed lower left: "Idi Teichmann"

framed by Thomas Agnew & Sons, Manchester (label verso)

Discussion:

Born Ida Fries, married name Teichmann, she called herself at times Idi Teichmann. German painter, draughtswoman, illustrator, caricaturist, and graphic artist active in Frankfurt am Main; 1894-97, pupil of Julius Maria Jakob Welsch; went on study trips to England (Nottingham) and Italy (Naples); 1903, return to Frankfurt am Main; from 1911, exclusively working as a draughtswoman, contributed to the Munich magazine "Jugend" in 1917 and 1918; mentioned in the 1930s in Reichenbach im Odenwald; member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar and of the GEDOK Frankfurt am Main, she exhibited at the Munich Glaspalast as well as at the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst, Munich, in 1937 and 1938; the graphic cabinets in Mainz, Breslau and Munich own works by her. 

"The German Ida Teichmann [was] a very fine artist who specialized in brilliant, realistic pencil studies of young women," often "a supremely sensuous depiction of erotic lassitude."  Bram Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), at pg. 156, ill. V, 32.  See, e.g., Ida Teichmann 3 on the Symbolismus website, hereinbelow.  She published in the art nouveau periodical Jugend in 1918.  Dijkstra at pg. 191.