Wilhelm Leibl

Wilhelm Leibl (1844-1900), Original Etchings, Kunstverlag Gurlitt, 1900

1900

Kurt Mühlenhaupt (1921 Klein Ziescht - 2006 Berlin), Myself, c. 1975. Woodcut, 32 cm x 29 cm (image), 36.5 cm x 32.5 cm (sheet size), signed in pencil lower right and titled “Selbst....

Bernhard Pankok (1872 Münster - 1943 Baierbrunn), General Wilhelm von Blume, 1915, aquatint etching, 34 x 29.5 cm (sheet size), 26 x 22 cm (plate size), signed in the plate at upper left, in pencil at lower right and dated in pencil at lower left. - At lower left old collection stamp, at the right broad margin with a small spot, otherwise very good condition. About the artwork The 1915 aquatint etching of General Wilhelm von Blume is based on a 1912 oil painting in the LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster. A second oil portrait of the general by Pankok is in the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. When Pankok painted the first oil portrait in 1912, the general had already been retired for 16 years. It is therefore a retrospective portrait. Accordingly, the orientation of his head is such that he is looking back in both the oil painting and the etching. Without fixing on anything in particular, he looks thoughtfully inwards and reflects on his life. Uniformed and highly endowed, it is his military activities in particular that he is reviewing attentively and, as his gaze reveals, quite critically. Pankok has literally written the sum of his experiences on Wilhelm von Blume's face: The physiognomy is a veritable landscape of folds, furrows, ridges and gullies, all the more striking against the flat background. It is clear that each of the medals was also won through suffering. However, by breaking the boundaries of the picture, his bust appears as an unshakable massif, which gives the general a stoic quality. The fact that the design of the portrait was important to Pankok can be seen from the different versions, the present sheet being the third and probably final revision, which Pankok dates precisely to 18 February 1915. Compared with the previous state, the light background now has a dark area against which the sitter's face stands out, the dark background in turn combining with the uniform to create a new tension in the picture. Pankok's taking up of the portrait of the high-ranking military veteran and its graphic reproduction can also be seen in relation to the First World War, which had broken out in the meantime. In the face of modern weapons of mass destruction, Wilhelm von Blume's warfare and military writings were relics of a bygone, more value-oriented era. About the artist After studying at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1889 to 1891 under Heinrich Lauenstein, Adolf Schill, Hugo Crola, and Peter Janssen the Elder, Bernhard Pankok went to Munich in 1892, where he worked primarily as a graphic artist for the two major Jugendstil magazines "Pan" and "Jugend," which established his artistic success. Through this work he met Emil Orlik, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In 1897, he exhibited his first furniture, and in 1898, together with Richard Riemerschmid, Bruno Paul and Hermann Obrist...

Hans Thoma (1839 Bernau - 1924 Karlsruhe), S. Anton Patenkirchen, 1895. Algraph on strong wove paper, published by Breitkopf und Härtel in Leipzig as ‘Zeitgenössisches Kunstblatt Nr....

Rudolf Nehmer (1912 Bobersberg - 1983 Dresden), The birds under the sky, 1948. Woodcut on yellowish wove paper, 11 cm x 18 cm (depiction), 43 cm x 30 cm (sheet size), signed “Rud.[ol...

Galizischer Bletter is a fine black and white etching on cream-colored paper, realized by Erich Wolfsfeld ( Krojanke, 1884 - London, 1956). From the portfolio Freunde Graphischer Kunst, Leipzig, 1915. In excellent condition, with the original cream-colored cardboard passepartout included with the drystamp of the publishing house logo "III. s" at the center on lower margin. A little rip on the lower right corner of the passepartout. This modern original print representing a street homeless begging demonstrates a great human and pictorial sensibility and surely is an artwork conceived in his Roman period when this kind of subjects was frequent. Erich Wolfsfeld (Krojanke, 1884 - London, 1956). Erich Wolfsfeld learned to etch in the studio of Hans Meyer, From 1907 worked in Rome, where he met Otto Greiner...

En Écosse is an artwork realized by Otto Weber in the 1870s. Etching. Image size:19x31 Good conditions. Realized for the "Société des Aquafortistes. Born on the initiative of t...

Le Mets Brule is a black and White etching realized by F. Ribot in the 1860s.  Titled in the lower Image Size: 31x22 Very good impression. Realized for the "Société des Aquaforti...

Weibliches Bildniss is an original Etching realized by Nicolai Massalow after Rembrandt in the 19th Century. Good condition.