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Schudel-Petraschke, Paula
1899 Schaffhausen - 1989 ibid.
«Die kluge und die törichte Jungfrau (the wise and the foolish virgin)».
Oil on masonite. Signed lower right and dated (19)53. Verso on a label signed again, titled and inscribed with the artist's data. Verso on the back of the frame a stamp of the frame and gilding store Rich. Petraschke, Berlingen.
H 84,5, W 56 cm (support). Gallery frame.
The painter, mosaicist and draughtswoman Paula Schudel-Petraschke, who lived in Singapore and on the Indonesian island Sulawesi, between 1926 and 1946, created paintings of muted colours, depicting geometrically reduced figures, always with large, dark eyes that radiate a subtle, aloof magic and almost hypnotic energy of timeless validity. Occasionally, her works take up biblical themes, in this case the parable of the ten virgins from the Gospel of Matthew, which can be interpreted eschatologically as a narrative of the proper preparation for the Last Day and thus eternal life.
Literature: Daisy Sigerist, Die Schaffhauser Malerin Paula Schudel-Petraschke, Schaffhausen 2000, p. 30 (cf.).

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