Paul Geissler

Market Square, Rothenburg, Germany

1919

Etching and drypoint on cream wove paper, 10 3/4 x 7 1/2 inches (270 x 190 mm), full margins. Signed, inscribed and titled in pencil, lower margin. Some small, scattered light spots...

Copper plate etching with drypoint on cream laid paper with a partial heraldic watermark, 11 x 8 inches (280 x 204 mm), full margins. Toning and some discoloration along the left mar...

'The Market Square at Pirna' (After Bernardo Bellotto) - Antique copper plate engraving on paper - titled (in German) in pencil lower left - signe...

This artwork titled "Old City Hall, Munich, Germany" c.1930 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 13.25 x 11.15 inches, framed size is 24.75 x 21.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden black and gold frame, with light grey matting and blue fillets. It is in excellent condition, slightly toned by age around the plate mark, see picture #7. The frame have a very small minor restoration, practically invisible. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna...