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Stella Steyn (1907-1987)
Descu Mloeh 1931/32
Mixed media on paper. 10.5 x 5 inches.
Provenance: The artist's family.
The Belgrave Gallery.
SOLD
Stella Steyn is the only known
Irish artist to have studied at the Bauhaus, the famous Art
and Design School in Germany. She had already had the experience
of living and working in Paris. However it was Germany at the
start of the 1930s which really excited and exhilarated her.
This was the time of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny
Opera and of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories which some
thirty years later inspired Kander and Ebb's Cabaret. As well
as experiencing the heady atmosphere of the time she was fortunate
to have as her teachers such giants as Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy
and Albers. This early work reflects the influence of her studies
in Germany.
This is an extremely rare example of Steyn's Bauhaus influenced
work from 1931/32. |
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