Painted in 1941 from drawings made in the garden of a house in Campden Hill, London. The additional images show a letter about this artwork from Mrs Charlotte Bloch, the wife of the artist. Mrs Bloch give context and interesting details about the…

Neuschul’s paintings of unemployed workers, Gypsies and black people provoked Goebbels into having his pictures vandalised in an exhibition in 1933. Neuschul portrays the breastfeeding mother with a monumental dignity, her watchful eyes indicating…

From about 1931 onwards, Laserstein began to adopt a looser, more fluid technique, her brushstrokes more impressionistic. This portrait of Laserstein’s close friend and favourite model Gertrud Rose (Traute Rose) is relaxed and informal. The image of…

The image of the woman applying her make-up is a powerful one. Painted in Berlin at the height of the Weimar years, it gives an insight into the changing fortunes of young metropolitan working women who, in the mid-1920s were achieving greater…

Oil, 1967.

Oil, c.1954.

Oil, 1954.

Oil, 1932.

Carl Ludwig Elias was the son of the distinguished art critic, Dr Julius Elias, who did much to promote a true understanding of French Impressionism in Germany. He was a lawyer in Berlin and emigrated to Norway when the Nazis came to power. He was…

Alternative title: The Granddaughter in the Wicker Chair Liebermann’s granddaughter was a much loved and frequent visitor to the artist’s lakeside villa. In this relaxed and unsentimental study, she is shown with her book leaning on a chair, while…