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Ex Libris Luise Trautmann - Etching - Early 20th Century

Early 20th Century

Etching realized by Frank Sepp (1889-1970) in the 1920s. Hand signed in pencil lower right. Very good condition.

Ex-Libris - Leo Winkeler is an Artwork realized in 1930 s., by Artist Jocelyn Mercier Etching on paper. Hand Signed and dated on the right margin. The work is glued on ivory cardbo...

Ex Libris - M.G. Van Wees is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten in 1940. Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered on the left corner, ex. 149/150 Good conditions. Mich...

Woodcut print attributed to Hans Ziegler and realized in 1910. Hand signed and dated on plate. Very good condition.

This is an etched rendition of a painting by Frank Dicksee. Harmony is one of the most well-known pictures by Dicksee, depicting a young man staring adoringly into the eyes of a girl...

With La Jupe Ôtée (1906), Manuel Robbe once again captures the delicate boundary between modesty and sensuality—a recurring theme in his celebrated Belle Époque prints. The title, wh...

Marcus Behmer (German, 1879 – 1958) Die Geravbte orchidee (The robbed orchid), 1903 Signed ‘Marcus Behmer’ (lower right in pencil) Lithograph on paper 16.1/8 x 12in. (40.8 x 30.5cm.) It is apparent Behmer is influenced by the work of Aubrey Beardsley, though this work is no less beautiful in its execution. Little is known regarding his connections to Oscar Wilde though he is obviously an admirer and has many similarities with his private life and incarceration in prison. These works were a personal gift to Baron Detlev von Hadeln, the aristocrat and prominent art historian of the age. Behmer is known to be, since 1903, a member in the first ever homosexual organization in Berlin and was thus probably a part of Adolf Brand’s circle, and may have contributed to Brand’s publication Der Eigene. Until now, few know that Behmer was sentenced in April 1937 by a court in Konstanz to imprisonment for two years, being arrested in Freiburg and at other locations in southern Germany for being a homosexual. At times he was given the opportunity to work as an artist in prison. The works produced in this period are mostly calligraphic designed tablets with Greek text (prayers and Bible quotes...

In "Le Maquillage" (1904), French artist Manuel Robbe captures a private, almost voyeuristic moment of everyday beauty—a young woman leaning toward her vanity mirror, lost in the rit...