Portrait study head of a Girl (Hilde Ziegler)

Kallir 1998: "Signed and dated, lower right. Present whereabouts unknown. Provenance: Heinrich Rieger"
The sitter is the then 17-year-old Hilde Ziegler (01.09.1901 Vienna - 04.11.1964 Salzburg), the later wife of Dr Albert Reitter, from March 1938 State Governor of the government in Salzburg and President of the Government, who in these functions was also a close friend of the art dealer Friedrich Welz.
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