Käthe Strenitz, Village

watercolour on paper

39.5 x 51.5

(lower right): Kathe Strenitz

1987-402

Despite its title, the subject of this work resembles the industrial landscape of London, particularly the area around Kings Cross, which the artist so often favoured in her work, allegedly...

Despite its title, the subject of this work resembles the industrial landscape of London, particularly the area around Kings Cross, which the artist so often favoured in her work, allegedly inspired by her arrival as a sixteen-year-old Kindertransportee at London's Liverpool Street Station in 1939.

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presented

Literature

Walter Schwabe and Julia Weiner, eds., Jewish Artists: the Ben Uri Collection - Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture (London: Ben Uri Art Society in association with Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd, 1994), p. 100.

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US: From there to here: Britain’s Gain

Käthe Strenitz 1923-2017

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