The fine pastel drawing is an idealized self-portrait of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, one of the leading proponents of Bauhaus-inspired interwar modernism. Although it is neither signed nor dated, we are able to place it rather reliably within the overall context of Dicker-Brandeis’ oeuvre thanks to a letter dated December 9, 1940, in which Dicker-Brandeis describes it to one of her closest friends, Hilde Kothny: “I am grateful and happy to be alive. It seems that I have managed to slip the net …and I still have enough strength to work. You see my courage in “Auto.” You see how determined I am...”
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