(Vienna 1906-2005 Seattle)
A New York street scene, signed and dated Lisel Salzer June 26 (19)45, watercolour on paper, 32 x 48 cm, mounted, framed, (Hu)

an old adhesive label Babcock Galleries New York on the reverse.

Lisel Alice Salzer grew up in a bourgeois Vienna family. She attended the so called Vienna women’s academy, which was an art school for girls and women. Hermann Grom-Rottmayer and Ferdinand Kitt were the founders of the Zinkenbach artists’ colony and her teachers. In Paris, in the class of Andre Lhote, she could gather a lot of new impressions. Salzer was one of the first women to exhibit in the Vienna Secession in 1928. In 1929 she took over the studio of Wolfgang Born, where many authors, artists and composers met, including Hilde Spiel, Lisl Weil, Erich Zeisl, Bettina Bauer-Ehrlich, Georg Ehrlich and Fritz Grossmann, who became her spouse. On the occasion of summer resorts in the Salzkammergut she came across the Zinkenbach painters colony. In 1939 Lisel Salzer and her husband Fritz Grossmann emigrated to New York via Paris. In America she dedicated herself with portrait painting, etchings and with the Limoges technique. She also travelled to the Navajo- und Hopi Indians. After her husband’s death she visited Vienna, Salzburg and Europe. She died at the age of 99. (B. Hagerty)