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Wonderful coincidences
Readers will have noticed the break in new postings. Reasons: busy, circumstances, preparations for publishing "The Mother of all Books" on German women artists born in the 19th century pioneering with...
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Marie Wippermann in Paris
These two (signed Paris, 1907 and 1908) and at first sight rather crudely executed and not very appealing or decorative prints recently surfaced. On closer examination they potentially may add a new...
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Käthe Kuntze: Forgotten Dresden artist (part 5)
Käthe Kuntze (1878-1969)After finding a portfolio with mixed works (drawings, etchings, lithographic prints, watercolors and a collection of prints by her Dresden artist friends) by deaf Dresden artist...
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Käthe Kuntze: Forgotten Dresden artist (part 6) and Julie von Paul-Drowetzky.
Ginstersstrauss - Broom bouquetWindow overlooking Radebeul Busy organizing the works created by Käthe Kunze and made available for sharing by Käthe's relatives and working on her biography I recently...
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Käthe Kuntze: Forgotten Dresden artist (part 7)
Some more Käthe and some puzzling: In 1910 Käthe drew her parents at Hamburg St. Pauli "Landungsbrücke" the floating passenger quais in tidal river Elbe in those days used by ocean steamers and today...
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Old Master Drawing
One can not live by woodblock prints alone so for a change today something very different: "Let them deliver it into the hand of the workmen who have the oversight of the house of the LORD, and let...
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Inspiration and all seasons
Inspiration&Flow of consciousness Helene Mass (1871-1955) today is considered by most serious collectors and connoisseur the godmother of German color woodblock printmaking. She probably is. She...
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Summers puzzle: joined effort with Henriette Grimm
I recently found a "new name" (as I'm always on the look out for new names building the Index). The name came with this print. There's no point in discussing the print (that came with a tear and isn't...
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Mona Elise
This Daguerotype photograph of a very pretty young women in a wonderful dress and with fashionable hairstyle was found in a charity shop: separated from her family and lost in history. Without words...
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Elly Proempeler: what's in a name ?
Elly Proempeler-Ebeling(05-01-1883 – 25-05-1972 Osnabrück) Author of “Kriegsgefangen quer durch Afrika”(“POW through the heart of Africa”)published in 1918 (Otto Elsner Verlag, Berlin). Feluccas on...
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Peyraud en Ardèche.
Hans van Eck(b. Haarlem 07-04-1941)Dutch contemporary artist and printmaker I do not think Johannes Cornelis ("Hans") van Eck eventually saw a career in linocut printmaking: I only know of two examples...
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Henriëtte Grimm: Summers Puzzle
Last week Austrian reader Hannelore Greinecker-Morocutti, herself an illustrator and artist send me a piece of last month's "Summer Puzzle". Above an example of Hannelore's work, a print reminding me...
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Henriette Grimm: Abazzia San Fruttuoso, Liguria, Italy
Puzzle solved ! Reader Hannelore from Austria succeeded, like a modern day Miss Marple (see before posting) in solving the mystery and puzzle: where and what is this building depicted by unknown...
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Henriette Grimm and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
Last week I found this book in an antiquarian bookshop: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner "Meisterwerke der Druckgraphik" "Nirgends lernt man einen Künstler besser kennen als in sein Druckgraphik"(Ernst Ludwig...
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Gerland or Garland
Gerland or Garland ?Recently this print surfaced in American Ebay signed in Sütterlin script: "Original Handdruck ......Gerland". It's maybe not as good or refined as Weimar printmaker Margarete...
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Kornelie Gerland ?
Kornelie Gerland (b. probably Strassburg 1865) Painter in Dresden.(Possible printmaker). My brilliant special Austrian correspondent ("korrespondierendes Mitglied") Hannelore, who to my great pleasure...
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Kornelie Gerland: au Chateau de Pourtalès ?
Amazingly this obvious companion print of the Castle-Hall-Garden-view print by Kornelie Gerland in before postings was send to me, obviously showing another spot in this unknown castle. I have a...
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Hein Hopman: unknown Rheinberg printmaker
Hein Hoppman (1901-1982) German painter and printmaker: Holzmarkt in Rheinberg. Ebay is what it is, an auction site, but for the curious and investigative by heart it is also a treasure cove of...
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Walli Peretz-Brutzkus: revisited
Before starting a new series of postings with some spectacular and rare prints from historic Hamburg I'ld like to share all the assembled bits and pieces of this biographic puzzle of one of my...
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Else Zinkeisen and friends: around Hamburg Bellevue and Ausser Alster.
Today some more nice pictures of picturesque Hamburg, to be more specific of the beautiful surroundings of the Alster the 2 lakes in the heart of this great city.Visit also my earlier posting on the...
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