Marie Elisabeth Wrede (born 1898 in
Salzburghofen, died 1981 in
Boulogne
Boulogne-sur-Mer (; pcd, Boulonne-su-Mér; nl, Bonen; la, Gesoriacum or ''Bononia''), often called just Boulogne (, ), is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the department of Pas-de-Calais. Boulogne lies on the ...
) was an Austrian painter, best known for her portraits.
Wrede studied with
Fernand Léger
Joseph Fernand Henri Léger (; February 4, 1881 – August 17, 1955) was a French painting, painter, sculpture, sculptor, and film director, filmmaker. In his early works he created a personal form of cubism (known as "tubism") which he gradually ...
in Paris. She associated with
Paul Valéry,
Robert and
Sonia Delaunay and also
Pablo Picasso, whom she drew.
She was married to Paul Arnold Hallgarten (born 7 December 1902 in
Frankfurt am Main, died 1930 in
Salzburg), the son of Fritz Hallgarten and Yella Bonn, a cousin of Moritz Julius Bonn, who in turn was a cousin of the art historian
Aby Warburg.
Works in museums and collections
* The Musée national d'art modern in Paris (
Centre Pompidou) houses several of her works.
* Wrede used drypoint etching to capture a portrait of her friend
Paul Valéry, now in the collection of the Museum Europäische Kunst in
Nörvenich.
* She painted a portrait of the rector of Munich University Reinhard Demoll in 1959/1960. She was connected to the university through her husband's uncle, the lawyer and Germanist Robert Hallgarten (1870-1924).
References
Sources
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Austrian painters
1898 births
1981 deaths
20th-century Austrian women artists
20th-century Austrian painters
Austrian women painters
Austrian expatriates in France
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