Eugénie FUCHS (1873–1943) - Lot 37

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Eugénie FUCHS (1873–1943) - Lot 37
Eugénie FUCHS (1873–1943) The Skiers’ Return to the Village, 1929 Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard. Signed and dated lower left, label no. 20 on the back 36.5 x 46 cm Eugenie Fuchs, a native of Berlin, studied painting under Franz Skarbina, Walter Leistikow, and Lovis Corinth, and traveled to Paris to further her studies. Her first known work is a landscape, painted in 1900 when she was 27 years old. After World War I, she participated in the Great Berlin Art Exhibition, the Art Exhibition without a Jury, and the exhibitions of the Berlin Secession. In 1927, the city of Berlin acquired a painting by Eugenie Fuchs, Lessingstrasse in the Snow, during the fall exhibition of the Association of Women Artists of Berlin. The work is now considered lost. After the Nazis came to power, she emigrated to Paris in 1933. There she formed connections with other artists and exhibited that same year at the Salon d’Automne, in a room specially reserved for Jewish emigrants from Germany. In occupied France, Eugénie Fuchs was interned in February 1943, at the age of 69, at the Drancy camp, then deported to Auschwitz on March 2, 1943. Some 71 of the painter’s works are known, and only 12 paintings have been located to date; it is unknown whether they were destroyed during World War II. The rediscovery of these two works, dated 1929 and 1932 respectively, is truly extraordinary
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