Artist: Renee SINTENIS (German, 1888 - 1965)
Title: Art Deco Fox - circa 1934
Medium: Original Drypoint and Aquatint Etching
Signature: Hand Signed by the Artist in Pencil, LR as shown
Edition: Limited Edition; exact print run unknown but believed to be below 20 impressions
Size: 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches (paper)
Provenance: Hatay Stratton Fine Art, Northampton, Massachusetts
About the Artist: Renée Sintenis (real name Renate Alice Sintenis) is an important and influential German sculptor and graphic artist. Coming from a well-to-do French family, she first took drawing lessons from Leo von Konig, then those of sculpture by Wilhelm Haverkamp at the Academy of the Royal Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin. She left her studies around 1910, and became a model for Georg Kolbe. Together, they take part in the exhibitions of Free Secession (of), a movement founded in 1914 and whose members include artists such as Max Lieberman and George Mosson. A self-portrait she presented in 1915 was noticed by the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, with whom she then began a long friendship, and who introduced her to her own and important circle of relations.