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GRETA SCHREYER-LOEBL* (Vienna 1917 - 2005 New York)
Bundle of two works

Wellfleet, Mass. USA, 1972
indian ink and gouache/paper, 44,2 x 60,6 cm
signed Greta Schreyer, dated 1972
dedicated and labelled Peter herzlich gewidmet Wellfleet, Mass. U.S.A.

Landscape with water
watercolor/paper, 51,2 x 66,3 cm
signed Greta Schreyer

ESTIMATE °€ 200 - 300
STARTING PRICE °€ 200

Greta Schreyer-Loebl was an Austrian-American painter and jewelry designer. At the age of 18, she followed in her father's footsteps and became a master goldsmith. Due to the annexation, she and her future husband Oscar Schreyer left the country for France in September 1938. In Paris they met a wealthy American who supported their affidavit to immigrate to the United States. The couple came to the United States in March 1939. They tried to get visas for their parents, but to no avail: all were deported to concentration camps. Oscar Schreyer's sister Nina Graboi (née Gusti Schreyer) emigrated to New York City with the help of Oscar and Greta. Greta Schreyer's jewelry design included pins that she made as a newly arrived immigrant to support herself - they became an instant fashion hit and were featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar and Mademoiselle magazines. From a goldsmith she developed into an artist and from 1956, the year of Schreyer's first solo exhibition, until her death, her work was shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Her paintings and watercolors deal in an encrypted form with her escape, her dream world and her optimism. One series is about burning synagogues in Poland and reflects the Nazi destruction of Polish Jewry. Since her death, Schreyer-Loebl's work has been in the permanent collections of the Brandeis University Library, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Haaretz Museum in Tel Aviv, Israel, and the Albertina and the Austrian Gallery Belvedere Pin Vienna, Austria. After Oscar Schreyer's death, Greta married her cousin, the economist and Vassar College professor Eugen Loebl.

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