Ruth Hildegard Geyer-Raack
Printed linen by Ruth Hildegard Geyer-Raack, manufactured by the Deutsche Werkstätten Textilgesellschaft mbH, Hellerau. Large-scale vignettes including two women under a tree with a fawn, two women seated under a fruiting plant, a woman walking alongside a stream, and a woman in front of a building facade with arched doorways and tented entry; in shades of pink, blue, green, chartreuse, brown, and coral on pale pink; original paper tag: "R. H. Macy & Co."
Geyer Raack used this fabric in her own home in 1928; see Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration (1928), pp. 254-55). An identical length is shown as drapery in a a Bielefeld interior by Paul Griesser; see Innen-dekoration (December 1930), p. 462. A similar printed cotton by Geyer-Raack is in the Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, acquired in 1925 (inv. XIV/678); and at the Neue Sammlung, Munich (inc. 31/25), also acquired in 1925; see Katharina Metz, European Textiles of the 1920s (Zurich, 1999); fig. 58; and Hans Wichmann, Von Morris bis Memphis (1990), 138; also illustrated in "Bayerisches Kunsthandwerk," Dekorative Kunst 28, no. 52 (1925): 284.
Excellent condition, unused length.
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