LOU LOEBER, bouwen 1932

signed with the initials and dated '32; signed, titled, inscribed Laren N-H and dated 1932 on the reverse, in original frame made by the artist

oil on panel

Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, 1972
Brook Street Gallery, London
Herman Dommisse, Amsterdam 1988 

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Kunst in Vrijheid, September - October 1945
The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, De Rationele Keuken, 1982

Apart from some surface dirt this work is in very good condition.
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Graphic artist and painter Louise Marie ('Lou') Loeber (1894-1983) trained at Rijksacademie Amsterdam 1915 - 1918. Her work shows the influence of Piet Mondriaan and other De Stijl artists. After traveling to Berlin and Dessau in 1927, Loeber  was greatly inspired by the work of Wassily Kandinsky. The work here offered was inspired by a mural by Gerd Arntz at the Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsmuseum in Vienna. Loeber probably saw an illustration of this work by Arntz, an artist of strong socialist conviction like herself, in Wendingen magazine (no. 9, 1930)