A richly textured interior scene by Alice Dannenberg. Her sculpted touch and bold camerawork 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 mouth, carved wood
Provenance: Former collection of the sculptor Almo Del Debbio
An intimate scene with a smooth touch and bold shots.
Alice Dannnenberg gives us a picture of intimacy here.

We are certainly in his Parisian interior; to be compared to the painting that we sold in 2011.
The artist immerses us in the heart of his living room, focusing on a few details: the light-colored sofa, part of an armchair, and a coffee table covered in a floral fabric. Through a section 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 ground, reminiscent of tender grass, bring a breath of spring air into the apartment and brighten the painting. This same floral fabric can be found in several of the artist's paintings.
Alice Dannenberg, a female painter who is part of the history of Parisian arts.
Alice Dannenberg is part of the history of the arts in Paris for having co-directed the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Montparnasse with Martha Stettler 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, which she left for France in 1892, with her Bernese companion, Martha Stettler, whom she met in 1887 at the Bern art school.
It is present in Paris in the cosmopolitan Montparnasse of the very end of the XIXth 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 mainly painted children's scenes in Parisian gardens, with an authentic style and without sentimentality.
In 1904, Alice Dannenberg and Martha Stettler were part of a new group of around fifty artists called "New Tendencies" which held its first exhibition.
In 1908, Alice Dannenberg joined the group "Les Quelques", bringing together painters and sculptors from the Left Bank, 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 melancholic landscapes. In 1913, prints of Italy appeared, including Venice and Florence. From 1914, a period of about ten years followed, devoted to interior scenes, and after the First World War, to still lifes.

Finally, around 1931-1935, she painted large and fiery canvases of flowers.
She exhibits at the Salons des Indépendants, d'Automne, des Tuileries, the Société National des Beaux Arts as well as in numerous Parisian galleries.
In 1911, she was elected a member of the National Society of Fine Arts.
In March-April 1937, the last exhibition in which Alice Dannenberg participated took place.
Critics compare his art to that of John Singer Sargent, Anders Zorn, Charles Cottet and observe influences from Lucien Simon.
Museums
Dieppe; Nice; Riga