Carl August Walther

Bookplate for Max Brückner-Rüggeberg

1912

Niccolò Schiavonetti (1771 Bassano del Grappa, Italien - 1813 London) after Guercino: Giovanni Francesco Barbieri (1591 Cento/Ferrara - 1666 Bologna), Jacob beholds Joseph's bloody r...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): The mill fire, proof with border incursion, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Inscribed and signed b...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Portrait of Vera, The Artist's Wife, proof print, 1908, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Signed and dated in the ...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): The avenue, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Inscribed below the image on the left and signed on th...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Mill backlit, 1913, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Monogrammed and dated in the printing plate, inscribed, numb...

Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Piazza Duomo in San Gimignano, 2 Probedruck, 20th century, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Monogrammed in the pr...

Jörg Olberg (*1956 Dresden), Agony, 1987. etching, E.A. (edition of 30), 24 x 17 cm (image), 46 x 37 cm (sheet), each signed in pencil lower right "Olberg" and dated "IX [19]87", inscribed lower left "E.A. [Epreuve d'Artiste]". - minimal crease and dust stains in the broad margin - The architecture of decay - About the artwork Jörg Olberg draws here the sum of his artistic study of the Berlin ruins, which were still present in the cityscape well into the 80s. With his work "Agony" he creates an allegory of decay. Positioned in the landscape of ruins, a ruined house grows before the viewer, rising like the Tower of Babel into the sky, its roof and gable brightly illuminated by the sun. But already the roof shows mostly only the rafters, and as the gaze is drawn further down, the building visibly disintegrates, the beams protruding in all directions looking like splintered bones. Slowly but inexorably - in agony - the house will collapse in on itself and become nothing more than the burial mound of itself. At the same time, the small-scale stone composition and the plaster form a pattern-like ornamentation of decay. The tension in the picture is fed by the counter-movement of growth and collapse, which is heightened by the dramatic formation of clouds. The swirls of clouds are reminiscent of a world landscape...

An original mixed media Photo Etching, Aquatint and Drypoint Printed on Arches Cover titled Leap Fail Leap, created by the artistic collaboration of Robert Flemming and Mizin Shin. ...

Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition: PP of 5, aside from edition of 30 plus 10 artist's p...

Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition: PP of 5, aside from edition of 30 plus 10 artist's p...

Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition: PP of 5, aside from edition of 30 plus 10 artist's p...

Hand signed, dated, and numbered by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. Edition: PP of 5, aside from edition of 30 plus 10 artist's p...