Gretchen Wohlwill - Artist Info

About Gretchen Wohlwill

  • Biography

    Painter and graphic artist, Gretchen Wohlwill studied at the Ladies painting school of Valeska Röver in Hamburg under E. Eitner and A. Illies. Wohlwill also studied in Paris at the Académie Stettler. She was an assistant in the studio of H. Matisse, co-founder of the Hamburg secession.

    She emigrated to Portugal in 1940, then returned to Hamburg in 1952. Her impressionist style became influenced by P. Cézanne and H. Matisse during her Paris sojourn. Later she turned to New Objectivity and the Hamburg secession style.

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