Professor Hermann Dischler
25th September 1866 – 20th March 1935
Hermann Dischler was born on the 25th of September in 1866 in Freiburg i.Br. He received his artistic training in the art school in Karlsruhe, he was student of Gustav Schönleber. Thereafter he was engaged as a painter in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald area.
1894, after he finished his studies, he built himself an artist’s workroom in Freiburg i.Br. At this time he went on a lot of trips and his trusty camera followed him everywhere. Five years later he started to number and comment his artworks, which he collected in 29 «Bildbüchern (books of pictures)».
In the winter months from 1905 to 1907 he stayed in the Todtnauer Hütte, where a lot of his oil studies arise.
The snowy winter landscapes became his typical theme and he called himself «Schneemoler (snowpainter)». 1917 he received his professorship by Grand Duke Friedrich II.
In 1927 he had an exhibition with artists like Curt Liebich, Julius Heffner, Wilhelm Nagel, Wilhelm Wickertsheimer a.o., they called themselves «Die Schwarzwälder (the Black Forests)». He died on the 20th of March in 1935 in Hinterzarten. Today his works are extremely appreciated because the snowy landscape present the untouched nature.
Lit: Exhibition Catalogue Augustiner Museum, Freiburg i.Br., 1993
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2012
Winterauktionen 25.–26.11.2022
Klinger, Max
1857 Leipzig - 1920 Großjena.
«Eine Liebe - Opus X (one love - Opus X)».
1920. Suite of ten etchings on chamois copperplate paper as well as title page. Each numbered lower right in the plate in Arabic numerals, inscribed «Opus X» and inscribed «Max Klinger» lower left. Sheet 6 titled «Intermezzo Adam und Eva und Tod und Teufel (intermezzo Adam and Eve and death and devil)» lower middle in the plate and inscribed «cachinnus auditur diaboli» lower left. Loose sheets in original half-linen folder with typographic title.
H 45 resp. 63,
Complete portfolio of the sixth edition. Consisting of «Widmung (dedication)», «Begegnung (encounter)», «Am Thor (at the gate)», «Kuss (kiss)», «Nacht (night)», «Intermezzo», «Neue Träume (new dreams)», «Erwachen (awakening)», «Schande (disgrace)» and «Tod (death)».
Published by Amsler & Ruthardt, Berlin 1920. Printed by Otto Felsing. As with the previous editions, only a few copies of the last edition were printed.
The title «Eine Liebe» gives a deep insight into the relationship of the sexes in the late
Provenance: private collection Lake Constance.
Catalogue raisonné: Singer 157-166.
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