Hanna Nagel - Frau in Trauer - rückseitig mit bedeutendem Autograph kurz vor Kriegsende

Signed original watercolor with ink from February 28, 1945 of the important representative of Verism in Germany, who studied with Karl Hubbuch in Karlsruhe and later with Emil Orlik in Berlin, who attested to her that she could become a second Kollwitz
Last year there was a highly acclaimed exhibition on the life and work of the artist in the Kunsthalle Mannheim, and an extensive catalog was published on the occasion which led to a re-evaluation of their work
On the back an autograph to a friend of mine in Berlin dated August 24th, 1944 - a shocking text "I'm glad to hear from you - I'm still alive too" and about her forced labor in the factory, where she had to slave away every day until she wasn't could do more
The watercolor - probably the artist herself, with a resigned look and dressed in black - masterfully and hauntingly
An important contemporary document of an important artist at the end of the Second World War