BARLACH, ERNST
1870 Wedel - 1938 Rostock

Title: Mixed Lot of 5 Prints (From: An die Freude).
Date: 1924-27/1980.
Technique: Woodcut on Japan.
Depiction Size: Sheets each: 34,5 x 45cm.
Notation: . With the artist's estate stamp. As well as numbered in the imprint.
Publisher: Ernst Barlach Nachlaßverwaltung Nikolaus Barlach, Ratzeburg / Akademie der Künste der DDR, Berlin (publisher).
Number: 44/75.


Condition:
Sheets each: Occasional minimal traces of handling. Cassette with minimal rubbings. Otherwise in very good condition.

Incomplete portfolio. Sheets 2, 3, 4, 5, 9 are present. After the ode of the same name by Friedrich Schiller. From the portfolio with originally 9 motifs. Reprint from 1980 from the original printing blocks. With the artist's estate stamp.

Provenance:
- Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin (proof of purchase)
- Bayer AG, Leverkusen

Literature:
- Laur, Elisabeth: Ernst Barlach - Werkverzeichnis I, Die Druckgraphik, Leipzig 2001, cat. rais. no. 86.