Two typical original colour etchings, comic scenes of young birds and insects. They must have been popular once and printed in an edition of 250 by Wohlgemut & Lissner in Berlin but also as postcards. Graphic artist working in Munich from a branche of an Estonian noble family of military, doctors, entomolgists etc..
Many more examples of Maydell’s unique and delicate phantasy graphic art can be found.
Achenbach-Jünemann, Hanna (Maria Johanna) (Dortmund 02-12-1892 - 01-11-1982 Siegen)
Painter, graphic artist and printmaker. Daughter of civil engineer and factory owner Johann Konrad Jünemann and Maria Zimmermann (born Würzburg). Studied 1914-1919 in Düsseldorf “Kunstakademie” where she met her future husband.
Married 1919 painter Hans Achenbach (1891-1972) and had two daughters. As a printmaker known from hand coloured linocut prints.
Her work was very much appreciated and exhibited in Essen “Folkwang Museum”, Wuppertal “Städtischen Museum”, Kassel “Landesmuseum”, Marburg “Kunsthistorisches Institut” and Hagen “Städtisches Museum”.
Member of the Siegerland Artist group (ASK).
