portrait of Ricarda Huch
backside information very hard to read

Ricarda Huch; July 18, 1864 – November 17, 1947) was a pioneering German intellectual.
Trained as a historian, and the author of many works of European history, she also wrote novels, poems, and a play.
Asteroid 879 Ricarda is named in her honour.
Thomas Mann called her "The First Lady of Germany".
Huch studied philosophy, history and philology at Zürich University, as women were not then eligible for degrees at German universities. In 1890, she was one of the first women to attain a doctorate from Zurich with a dissertation on "The neutrality of the Confederation during the Spanish War of Succession" (Die Neutralität der Eidgenossenschaft während des spanischen Erbfolgekrieges).
Shortly after attaining her doctorate, she published poetry under the alias of Richard Hugo.
After working as a librarian, Huch left for Bremen, where she taught German and history.
She later moved to Vienna and in 1898, she married Ermanno Ceconi, an Italian dentist.
She moved to his Italian homeland of Trieste for several years, where they had a daughter, but they divorced in 1906.
She later married her brother-in-law and cousin, the writer Richard Huch.
Huch was a member of the "Preußische Akademie der Künste", but resigned in 1933 when the National Socialists seized power and began purging the Academy.
Huch left after Alfred Döblin quit.
Despite her critical attitude to the new régime, Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler sent her congratulatory telegrams on her 80th birthday.
Huch dedicated much of her life to Italian, German and Russian history and historical novels that were psychological biographies.
In 1947, she was an honorary president of the First German Writers Congress in Berlin.

Her grandfather was important to her, while he initiated into writing and transferred his love for history to her.
Ricarda's last novel was "Der falsche Grossfather" (The wrong grandfather).

painting: waterbased on an ivory chip
not signed, but made by a great master
very fine details
preservation: excellent
one of the better portraits in this collection
frame: ivory chips with an inlay of nacre,
decorated ring and copper suspension eyelet
frame in superb state
curved glass
internal dimension ring: vertical 46 mm.
thicknes frame: 8 mm
vertical dimension frame: 104 mm




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