OB197
1924 · Pen and black ink and graphite, with smudging and erasing, on cream wove tracing paper
59.7 × 47.8 cm (23 9/16 × 18 7/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Ella Bergmann-Michel
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Ella Bergmann-Michel was a German painter, graphic artist, and photographer whose practice spanned modernist abstraction, photomontage, and graphic design from the 1920s onward. Active during the Weimar avant-garde, she worked across multiple media with formal precision and experimental rigor. Her engagement with the visual language of early twentieth-century German modernism positioned her as a significant practitioner of a period marked by rapid artistic innovation and cultural ferment.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago
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- Art Institute Chicago2 published2 img
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