BETTINA EHRLICH-BAUER* (Vienna 1903 - 1985 London) Reichenau, 1963 watercolour and ink/paper 30 x 50 cm signed Bettina, inscribed Reichenau dated 1963 ESTIMATE °€ 200 - € 400 STARTING PRICE € 200 The Austrian-British painter, graphic artist, illustrator and children's book author Bettina Ehrlich-Bauer was the niece of the wealthy couple Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer and the wife of the painter George Ehrlich. Between 1920 and 1923 she studied at the Vienna School of Applied Arts under Böhm, Čižek, and Wissgrill. Afterwards she travelled to Berlin to learn different printing methods. Back in Vienna, she created her first children's books using a hand press. Between 1925 and 1929, she lived in Paris because she wanted to study oil painting and watercolour painting. She took part in numerous exhibitions between 1920 and 1930 and joined the Association Wiener Frauenkunst (Vienna Women's Art). In 1932, she became fascinated with textile design and wrote children's books with her own illustrations. It was represented in the Hagenbund for the first time in 1931. From 1934 to 1938, she was a member of the Hagenbund until she emigrated to London with Georg Ehrlich in 1938. She received textile commissions and published children's books in English. A year later, together with Georg Ehrlich, she embarked on a trip to the USA. After the death of her husband, she devoted herself primarily to artistic creation. In 1984, Bauer-Ehrlich was involved in the exhibition "Malerkolonie Zinkenbach" in the Altnöder Gallery in Salzburg. Further artists and styles: New Objectivity, Illustration, Zinkenbach Artists' Colony PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and, the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.