Dress
ca. 1930 (made)
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This dress is shown in a double portrait in oils of Susanne and Ilse Gottschalk aged three and five, in 1933 (in the museum's collections). Their parents commissioned the artist Joseph Oppenheimer, RP (1876-1966) to paint it for their house in Berlin. Susanne is holding her teddy bear and Ilse is sitting by her toy poodle. The toys have not survived, but the dresses have, which is relatively rare. This black dress is quite unusual for the period, both in its lines and colouring, and makes a strong contrast with the paler colours and more traditional style of the pale yellow dress.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Cotton |
| Brief description | Girl's dress of printed cotton, made in Germany, ca. 1930. |
| Physical description | Girl's dress of unlined black cotton printed with coloured flowers. The dress has a round neck with a double frill of white cotton edged with machine-made lace, and short puffed sleeves gathered into a self fabric cuff. The garment has a peplum of self fabric at the waist, above a short flared skirt, and fastens at the front of the bodice with four metal press studs. |
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| Credit line | Given by Mrs Susanne Dell |
| Object history | Worn by Susanne Gottschalk to have her portrait painted by the artist Joseph Oppenheimer when she was aged three in 1933. |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | This dress is shown in a double portrait in oils of Susanne and Ilse Gottschalk aged three and five, in 1933 (in the museum's collections). Their parents commissioned the artist Joseph Oppenheimer, RP (1876-1966) to paint it for their house in Berlin. Susanne is holding her teddy bear and Ilse is sitting by her toy poodle. The toys have not survived, but the dresses have, which is relatively rare. This black dress is quite unusual for the period, both in its lines and colouring, and makes a strong contrast with the paler colours and more traditional style of the pale yellow dress. |
| Associated object | B.49-2004 (Depiction) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | B.51-2004 |
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| Record created | March 21, 2006 |
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