Kasia von SZADURSKA (1886-1942), Friends with a Cat, 1921

autolithography colored in tempera by the artist, paper, 23 x 31 cm (composition), 50 x 40 cm (sheet dimensions); signed on matrix l. d.: v. Szadurska.
The lithograph comes from the portfolio "Ten Nudes" published in an edition of 200 pieces.

Kasia von Szadurska lived and worked on Lake Constance for about 25 years. Her works can be classified around German Expressionism. Szadurska reached her artistic peak just after World War I and in the 1920s, working in printmaking, book illustration and painting. In Constance she was one of the founders of the expressionist association "Breidablik " of 1919, the first association of painters on Lake Constance. Above all, Kasia von Szadurska was an excellent printmaker who captured her impressions with a sure, quick line. She preferred dark scenes and erotic depictions of women, stylistically referring to the fading Expressionism. The artist did not care about bourgeois conventions and barriers of decency, the artistic expression of which was the series "Ten Nudes" , published in a limited edition of 200 pieces in 1921, showing the beauty of the female figure.