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Almost completely obscured Berlin artist but for one oil painting sold in auction. In May 2023 this surprisingly nice 1935 woodblock showed up and was acquired for the collection. The use of colours and stylishly it is reminding of prints by Hedwig Matthiessen and Christa Lettow-Vorbeck. She is mentioned, as a member, in the archives of the VdBK and in Dressler’s Kunsthandbuch 1930.

Her biography, family, ancestry and career are still a mystery.

She was confused with Hungarian etcher Maria (Mariska) Augustin.

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Arohns(s)ohn, Helene (Hella) (1898 - 1990 America)

Jewish illustrator, author and graphic artist (etcher), not known as printmaker.

During her career she went by her given name of Hella Aronso(h)n but more often, Hella Arensen, likely to mask her Jewishness. Known for her drawings and etchings of cityscapes and landscapes in and around Berlin. She also produced portraits of artists whom she visited in their studios, including: Karl Hofer, Max Pechstein, Heinrich Zille, Elisabeth Wolff, and others.

Her portrait was painted by Berlin secessionist and expressionist painter Willy Jaeckel (Breslau 1888 - 1944 Berlin) who’s studio was destroyed by allied bombing and was killed in another bombing raid on Berlin.

In 1924 she illustrated (Arensen) a volume of Dostoevsky's tales published in Berlin. In 1929 she exhibited drawings at “Galerie Wertheim”.

In1934 (sept. 29^th) she wrote an article: “Heim elternloser Kinder, Besuch im Reichenheimschen Waisenhaus” (visit to Reichenheim orphanage: in “Gemeindeblatt der Jüdischen Gemeinde zu Berlin”, volume 24 no. 36.

She fled persecution in Nazi Germany in 1935 and settled in New York. There in 1936, she illustrated a Zionist calendar, later she illustrated "Holiday Night Dreams: Stories and Fantasies from the Jewish Lore of Yore" by Arnold Posy (1893-1986).

While still living in Germany, she supported herself as a newspaper illustrator and produced drawings for: “Berliner Allgemeine Zeitung" (1925, 1927-32), “Berliner Morgen-post” ( 1924-33), “Berliner Zeitung am Mittag” (1925-29), “Brummbär” (1928, 1929), “Neue Berliner Zeitung” (1929), “Tempo” (1929-32), “Die Voss” (1924) and “Zeitbilder” (1924).

Exhibited Berlin 1925 “Juryfreie Kunstschau” (page 11) with two works “Aus dem Suden” and “Hinter den Zirkus” (medium unknown).

Works collected by Inge and Erich Fitzbauer (b. 1927), who was a graphic artist involved in the well known Insel-Bücherei

Dressers KHB. 1930 Berlin-Wilmersdorf, Uhlandstrasse 79a

Osborn Handbuch des Kunstmarktes 1926: Berlin -W., idem.