Portrait of Dr Albert Malte Wagner, ca. 1920
ArtistAnita Rée,
Hamburg
1885–1933
Kampen
MediumOil on cardboard
(H x W)100,5 × 69,5 cm
Status
on display, room 022Towards the end of the First World War, Anita Rée started a promising artistic career. Her good reputation as a portrait painter brought her commissions in Hamburg and Bremen. The literary scholar Albert Malte Wagner, who taught at the University of Hamburg, had Rée portray him in front of the bust of Friedrich Hebbel – a poet whose work he had dedicated his doctoral thesis to. In gratitude for the painting, Wagner wrote an article about the Jewish artist. The increasing persecution by the National Socialists weighed heavily on Anita Rée. She committed suicide on Sylt in 1933.
AccessionLoan of the Friends of the Kunstpalast since 2025
Provenance[...]; 28.2.2025 Freunde des Kunstpalastes angekauft von Sabina Fliri fine art, London; 2025 erhalten als Dauerleihgabe von den Freunden des KunstpalastesInventory number0.2025.5L
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