Alice DANNENBERG ( 1861 – 1948 ) Interior scene

Alice Dannenberg

An interior scene with generous material by Alice Dannenberg. Her sculpted brushstrokes and bold shot bring a modern touch to the painting.

Oil on panel
Dimensions: 32.5 x 41 cm
With frame: 55 x 63 cm
Frame E. Stamped “Bouche”, wood carving

Provenance: Former collection of the sculptor Almo Del Debbio

Price : 4500 euros

An intimate scene with a smooth touch and a bold shot.

Here, Alice Dannnenberg gives us a picture of intimacy.
We’re certainly in her Parisian home, similar to the painting we sold in 2011.

The artist plunges us into the heart of her living room, focusing on a few details: the light-colored sofa, part of an armchair and a coffee table covered with a flowery fabric. Through part of the window, also cut out, we can see the top of a tree and the building opposite.
The colorful flowers of the fabric and the green of the floor, evoking soft grass, bring a breath of spring air into the apartment and brighten up the painting. The same floral fabric can be found in several of the artist’s paintings.

Alice Dannenberg, a woman painter in the history of Parisian art.

Alice Dannenberg goes down in the history of the Paris arts scene for having co-directed the Académie de la Grande Chaumière with Martha Stettler in Montparnasse in 1904. They ran the Grande Chaumière, an avant-garde art academy founded at 14, rue de la Grande-Chaumière, where Lucien Simon and Antoine Bourdelle also taught.

Biography

Alice Dannenberg, born in Latvia, is a French painter originally from the Russian Empire.

Alice Dannenberg first lived in Switzerland, leaving for France in 1892 with her Bernese companion, Martha Stettler, whom she had met in 1887 at the Bern Art School.

She was introduced in Paris in the cosmopolitan Montparnasse of the late 19th century.

When Alice Dannenberg first exhibited in Paris in 1900, she was an established painter who had been working on her paintings for over 15 years. Her earliest known painting dates from 1884; it depicts a Russian landscape.

From 1904 to 1911-1912, she painted mainly children’s scenes in Parisian gardens, in an authentic, unadorned style.

In 1904, Alice Dannenberg and Martha Stettler were part of a new group of around 50 artists called “Tendances nouvelles”, which held its first exhibition.

In 1908, Alice Dannenberg joined the “Les Quelques” group of Left Bank painters and sculptors, which also included Martha Stettler and Claudio Castelucho, a Catalan from Barcelona, to exhibit outside the major Salons.

From 1908 to 1913, she exhibited seaside scenes and melancholy landscapes. In 1913, impressions of Italy appeared, including Venice and Florence. From 1914 onwards, a period of around ten years devoted to interior scenes followed, after the First World War, by still lifes.
Finally, around 1931-1935, she painted large, spirited canvases of flowers.

She exhibits at the Salons des Indépendants, d’Automne, des Tuileries, de la Société Nationale des Beaux arts and in numerous Parisian galleries.

In 1911, she was elected a member of the Société nationale des beaux-arts.

March-April 1937 saw the last exhibition in which Alice Dannenberg took part.

Critics compare her art to that of John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn and Charles Cottet, and note influences from Lucien Simon.

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