Eugen Kirchner Figurative Prints

KATHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945) HAMBURGER KNIEPPE, 1901) (K.58 IIIb) Soft Ground Etching, Plate 9 ¾ x 8 ¼ sheet 10 ½ x 13 ¾. With the von de Becke blind stamp in the lower right. Prin...

Femme Nue Vero la Gauche from The Reincarnations du Pere Ubu Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Date: 1928 Etching with Aquatint, signed in the plate Image Size: 12 x 8 inches Size:...

A superb, richly-inked impression of an early etching and drypoint. With burr throughout and crisp plate edges. First state (of 2). Edition of 100. Signed in pencil by Chagall. Print...

Georg Baselitz (1938) Elke Up Side Down : Tribute to Woman Original etching On Rives vellum 66 x 50 cm (c. 26 x 20 in) Authenticated with Chalcographie of Louvre Museum blind stamp ...

An original mixed media, Photo Etching, Aquatint, Drypoint on paper by the collaboration of two artists, Robert Flemming and Mizin Shin. This piece entitled Judgment Hour measure ...

Artist: Georges Rouault, French (1871 - 1958) Title: Frontispiece from the portfolio Les Reincarnations du Pere Ubu Year: 1929 Medium: Etching and aquatint on cream wove paper, signe...

Fille Nue from Le Reincarnations du Pere Ubu Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Date: 1928 Aquatint on Arches, signed in the plate Image Size: 10.5 x 6.5 inches Size: 17 x 12.5 in. ...

Artist: Theo Tobiasse, French (1927 - 2012) Title: Le Reve de Jacob Year: 1984 Medium: Etching with Carborundum, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 65/75 Image: 27 x 22.5 inc...

An excellent impression of this large color aquatint. Numbered in pencil 99/175. Printed by Lacourière, Paris. Published by Vollard, Paris. Catalogue reference: Chapon/Rouault 141; ...

Lester Johnson Girls Walking State 3 etching 1986. Designated edition number 8 of 21 in pencil lower left recto. Signed in pencil "Lester Johnson" lower right recto.

Lovis Corinth (1858 Tapiau - 1925 Zandvoort), Rudolf von Rittner as Florian Geyer, 1924 (Müller 854), drypoint signed in pencil. 20.4 × 14.2 (plate size), 37.7 × 30.6 cm (sheet size). Published by Karl Nierendorf, Berlin. Framed in a passepartout. - Strong, precise impression. Frame a little bit rubbed and with two small damages. About the artwork The knight is a leitmotif in Lovis Corinth's work, culminating in his Self-Portrait in Armour of 1914. Of all the paintings on this theme, Corinth most often depicted Florian Geyer. Descended from a Franconian noble family, he fought for the freedom of the peasants during the peasant wars of the Reformation, first diplomatically and then militarily, leading the legendary Schwarzen Haufen (Black Troops). The name derives from the black uniforms with which Geyer dressed the peasants willing to fight. During the Napoleonic occupation, the freedom fighter Florian Geyer was sung about by the Romantics, and the free corps Die Schwarze Schaar, founded in 1813 by Major von Lützow, succeeded the Schwarzer Haufen. It was against this historical background that Gerhard Hauptmann wrote the revolutionary drama Florian Geyer, which premiered at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in 1896. While the actor Rudolf Rittner, who would later appear in Fritz Lang's films, initially played the role of Schäferhans, he took over the leading role in the new production at Berlin's Lessing Theatre in 1904, again directed by Emil Lessing, which established his fame as an actor. Hauptmann himself praised the acting. He wrote to Hugo von Hofmannsthal: "It went quite well with Florian Geyer. In any case, I had the great pleasure of seeing the play again in an admirable performance". And Lovis Corinth was so taken with Rittner's performance that he painted an oil portrait of him in the role of Florian Geyer in 1906. After two further graphic versions in 1915 and 1920/21, Corinth returned to the painting a year before his death and almost twenty years after the oil painting to create this graphic version in 1924. Even the inscription in the picture was taken over. This proves all the more the importance of the knight and freedom fighter for Corinth's self-image. The oil painting, in particular, proclaims the single-minded determination to fight to the last for the values defended, manifested in the oil painting by the tattered flag held out to the enemy. There is a parallel with Rainer Maria Rilke's 1899 story The Cornet, in which the protagonist goes down with the flag that he first saved at the risk of his life. Consequently, the portrait is also a self-portrait, and the knight's armour is not an academic costume or an ironic refraction, but an expression of Corinth's self-image, which also includes his self-representation as an artist. The Secession poster...

La Negre from The Reincarnations du Pere Ubu Georges Rouault, French (1871–1958) Date: 1928 Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Image Size: 12 x 8 inches Size: 17 x ...