Anita Rée

1885–1933 · Expressionism & Early Modernism

Anita Clara Rée was a German avant-garde painter during the Weimar Republic. She killed herself after the antisemitic government declared her work degenerate. Her works were saved by a groundskeeper.

12 paintings

• Self-portrait (1930)
• Female Nude in front of a Prickly Pear (1923)
• The Wise and Foolish Virgins (1929)
• Self-portrait (1950)
• Ravine at Pians (1921)
• White Trees (1922)
• Young Chinese man (1919)
• Haus auf Fels (1921)
• Teresina (1925)
• Orpheus with the animals (1930)
• Bertha im Herz-Jesu-Rahmen (1926)
• Distelnonne (Mädchen mit Silberdistel) (1926)