TÜPKE-GRANDE Helene (1871-1946), Camels.

Camels.

Oil on canvas, signed: "Hel.Tüpke-Grande". Dimensions: 27 x 30.5 cm (in frame: 37.5 x 42 cm.
Good condition. Orientalist atmosphere, two riders on camels against a desert landscape with rolling dunes. Tüpke-Grande, Helene (1871-1946), painter, graphic artist, teacher. She was born in Rudno, near Wolow. She studied painting with Heinrich Irmann and Carl Morgenstern at the Royal School of Arts and Crafts in Breslau, and trained in landscape in Gauting near Munich with Peter Paul Müller. Initially she painted flowers and still lifes, and from 1896 almost exclusively landscapes. From 1900 she ran a painting school in Breslau. She also practiced printmaking. She made numerous artistic trips, including to the North Sea, Brandenburg, the Baltic Sea, Italy (1926), Egypt (1828), Yugoslavia, occupied Poland (1941, Zakopane). She especially often depicted spring and autumn in her landscapes. Her views of water - sea, ponds or streams - are distinguished by their high artistic level. An excellent observer of nature, she deftly rendered light and atmospheric phenomena and the richness of nature's colors. She was a member of the Association of Silesian Women Artists, and lived permanently in Breslau. She was the wife of the painter Heinrich Tüpke. She participated in numerous exhibitions, including in Wroclaw, Jelenia Gora, Poznan, Dresden. [Anna Jezierska]