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Hedi (Hedwig) Schick (1906 Vienna - 1999 London) was
in her younger years strongly influenced by Oskar Kokoschka and Otto Dix. She
studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule (School of Applied Arts), from which
she graduated in the early 1930s (her name could be found among those of
professional applied artists in the address book of Vienna Artists issued in
1934 - see our last image).
As a Jewish woman, Hedi Schick escaped Nazi
persecution in Austria, came to Britain in the late 1930s and began working,
producing theatre backdrops and scene painting. She received British
Citizenship in 1947.
She met Clement and Wilfred Hall who ran a gallery in
Islington (London) and began working for them as a picture restorer. Later on,
she exhibited with the Islington Art Circle during the 1950s and 1960s. Much of
this work was based on her family's experiences in the Holocaust.
She worked as an illustrator, illustrated the fairy
tales of Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the books such as "Bush and
Billabong" and "Australian Tales of Long Ago" by Peter Paxton
(1945), etc. She also made further advertising work for theatre and projects of
textile. (*this information was borrowed from David Buckman's "Artists in
Britain since 1945", Volume 2, page 412).
Provenance: artist's estate
Condition: good
Creation Year: 1948
Measurements: UNFRAMED: 41.5cm x 31.0cm / 16.3in x 12.2in
FRAMED: 51.9cm
x 41.9cm / 20.4in x 16.5in
Object Type: Framed watercolor
Style: The
New Objectivity
Technique: Indian ink, pen, watercolor on paper (laid on cardboard by the artist)
Inscription: signed and dated: H.Schick /1948
Creator: Hedi Schick
Creator Dates: 1906 Vienna-1999 London
Nationality: Austrian / British / English
Themes:
FEMALE ARTIST
AUSTRIAN
ENGLISH
BRITISH
JEWISH
NEUE SACHLICHKEIT
MODERN ART
EXPRESSIONISM
NEUE SACHLICHKEIT
ITALIAN
CHILDREN
LITTLE GIRL
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