St Guénolé Penmarc'h - Leuze Hirschfeld Emmy - Brittany

Dimensions: without frame 45 x 100 cm, avec cadre 60 x 115 cm.
Oil on canvas, signed and titled lower left.



Emmy Leuze-Hirschfeld (1884 - 1976):
Born in Vienna in 1884, she attended the School of Arts and Crafts there. It was in 1905 at the age of 22 that she settled in Concarneau and met her first love in the person of the painter Émil Bénédiktoff Hirschfeld, a Russian then aged 38. They married the following year and moved into their new residence named "Ker Loar" not far from the Le Gout Gérard. They lived in Concarneau until the death of her husband in 1922. Emmi was then 38 years old. Perhaps to drown her sorrows, she decided to set off alone to discover the world: Morocco, Tunisia, Tahiti, Spain, South Africa, Mozambique... She never stopped traveling but always returned to Brittany, her adopted land. She painted genre scenes and portraits. She was a happy and luminous personality, with a "virile and sincere" painting style, as the journalist Giffard wrote, "she observed nature with intelligence and affection, she accurately noted the subtle play of light."