Kasia von SZADURSKA (1886-1942), Friends, 1921

autolithography colored in tempera by the artist, paper, 34.5 x 26 cm (light passe-partout), signed on the plate l. d.: K. v. Szadurska.

The autolithograph comes from the portfolio "Ten Nudes" published in 1921 in an edition of 200 copies and personally signed by the artist.

Kasia von Szadurska lived and worked on Lake Constance for about 25 years. Her works can be classified around German Expressionism. Szadurska reached her artistic peak just after World War I and in the 1920s, working in printmaking, book illustration and painting. In Constance, she was one of the founders of the expressionist association " Breidablik " of 1919, the first association of painters on Lake Constance. naAbove all, Kasia von Szadurska was an excellent graphic artist who captured her impressions with a sure, quick line. She preferred dark scenes and erotic depictions of women, stylistically referring to the fading Expressionism.The artist was unconcerned with bourgeois conventions and barriers of propriety, the artistic expression of which was the series "Ten Nudes", published in a limited edition of 200 pieces in 1921, showing the beauty of the female figure.