Von Tanten die Trinken und Tanzen (of aunts who drink and dance)
seven aquatint etchings b+w, rare edition of 40
signed and numbered: Gertrude Degenhardt, edition 36/40. A total of 8 etchings (incl. cover) in the original folder, purchase from the artist 1975.
plate 6" x 6", sheet size 15,5” x 10,5", folder, designed by Juergen Seuss
Gertrude Degenhardt was born in New York in 1940, but grew up in Berlin. As off 1966 she was a freelance painter and illustrator in Mainz, Germany.
In 1968 she received a prize at the Graphic-Biennale in Cracow, Poland and in 1976 again this time in Fredrikstad in Norway. She has exhibited her work internationally and lives and works at the west coast in Ireland and the Upper Rhine Valley in Germany today.