Word: reppert
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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Last week at New York's Balzac Galleries, Frau Jack von Reppert-Bismarck was heralded as a great-granddaughter-in-law of the Iron Chancellor's cousin, and also as Germany's Marie Laurencin...
...both is eminently suitable for arty magazines. Both have the trick of inserting self portraits in most of their pictures. But Marie Laurencin is 45, red haired, very much a woman of the world, served a long painstaking art apprenticeship before her paintings caught the public fancy. Jack von Reppert-Bismarck is bashful, blonde and 22, looks about 15, and is something of a child prodigy...
...christened Elsa von Wenden, began drawing at the age of three, illustrated the Bible and Oliver Twist (as told by her sister) at six. At 17 she married Jorg von Reppert-Bismarck, not many years her elder, whose great-grandfather was the great Bismarck's first cousin. Her husband gave her the nickname "Jack" which she signs to all her paintings, and which he pronounces "Jake...