Ella Bergmann-Michel
Untitled
1918
Pen and ink drawing and watercolour over partially faint preparatory pencil drawing on light tracing paper 67/ 69 x 49.5 cm Framed under glass. Monogrammed and dated 'E.B. 18.' within the composition lower right. Stamped with the so-called "Weimarer Signet" in red lower right. - Brown stains throughout with light-stain in mat opening; the corners of the sheet partially torn out, small marginal tears. - Exhibition labels on frame backing by Annely Juda Fine Art, London, Galerie Mühlenbusch, Düsseldorf and Galerie Stolz, Cologne.
Ella Bergmann also used the stamp designed by Robert Michel in the early works of her Weimar period. She met Robert Michel in Weimar in 1917. He lived on the ground floor of the house opposite, she lived „three floors up“. „This inspired his Weimar signet, a small, red stair of three steps with a circle at the top“. (Claudia Reising-Pohl, in: exhib. cat. Hanover 1988, op. cit., p. 12)
Provenance
Formerly private collection Munich; Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia
Literature
Cf. Claudia Reising-Pohl, Robert Michel 1897-1983, Vom Utopisten zum Gestalter, in: exhib. cat. Robert Michel (Sprengel Museum Hannover/Bad. Kunstverein Karlsruhe/Frankfurter Kunstverein), Hanover 1988, p. 12
Exhibitions
Düsseldorf 1986/1987 (Galerie Mühlenbusch), Robert Michel/ Ella Bergmann-Michel, no. 29 with full-page colour illus.; Cologne March-April 1988 (Galerie Stolz), no. 19