A sampling of approximately 200 paintings and drawings from the estate of Adelheid  Hirsch (nee Flatau) b. Berlin, 1903, d. Madison, WI, 1998.

A student of Professor Rhein (?), Walter Muhe, George Mosson, Ferdinand Spiegel, and Karl Hofer (Vereinigt Staat-schulen) and Johannes Itten (Itten Schule).

As her mother was English and her father German, she was fluent in both languages.  She worked as a translator/interpreter for Johnannes Itten (Itten Schule, Berlin) during the late 1920s to early 1930s. Her work varies in style but is heavily influenced by her German Expressionist training.

She married Dr. Franz Eduard Hirsch in 1934 and resided in Berlin.  They fled Nazi Germany in 1935 and settled in Chicago in the company of other exiled German artists at “The New Bauhaus”.   She completed a B.A. in Art Education at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1949 and later received a Master of Art Education from the Art Institute.

We have approximately 100 oil paintings and two large folios of drawings and paintings. During her career, she never sold a painting.  I will be cataloging her work over the next few months and will be preparing her artwork for sale. More to come.