Dress

This dress is shown in a double portrait in oils of Susanne and Ilse Gottschalk aged three and five, in 1933 (in the museum's collections). Their parents commissioned the artist Joseph Oppenheimer, RP (1876-1966) to paint it for their house in Berlin. Susanne is holding her teddy bear and Ilse is sitting by her toy poodle. The toys have not survived, but the dresses have, which is relatively rare. The pale yellow dress is particularly typical of the period, and makes a strong contrast with the bolder colours and lines of the black dress.