August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)
Der Traum (The Dream)
circa 1901
etching, aquatint, and drypoint on Japan paper
trial proof
20,2 x 13,4 cm
The Daulton Collection
Exhibition History:
"Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tortured Soul," Leopold Museum, Vienna, April 16 - July 24, 2022
Publication History of this impression:
Hans-Peter Wipplinger, ed., Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tortured Soul (Vienna: Leopold Museum, 2022), pgs. 64 (ill.), 320.
A rare rejected plate for Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen. This state does not appear in the published literature on Brömse and his work; and this impression may be unique. For a much different, probably earlier, state of this rejected plate, see Gabriela Kašková, ed., Schattenseiten: August Brömse und Kathrin Brömse (Regensburg: Stiftung Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg, 2011), pg. 39, Kat. 27.
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August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)
"Erlösung" ("Salvation")
1902
etching and aquatint in colors
trial proof
29 x 21 cm
signed in pencil lower right: "A. Brömse"
titled in pencil lower left: "Erlösung"
The Daulton Collection
This print is a unique color variation of Plate 13 from Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen.
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August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925) "Schlimme Nächte" ["Bad Nights"] circa 1902 etching and aquatint plate 14,8 x 19,5 cm in pencil lower right outside the plate mark signed: "August Brömse" in pencil lower center within the plate mark titled: "Schlimme Nächte" The Daulton Collection
Plate 4 from Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen. in a color variation that is different than the impression in the Amsterdam Portfolio.
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August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)
"Eine Todte" ("A Dead Woman")
c. 1902
etching
24 x 42,5 cm (sheet) signed in pencil lower right: "August Brömse"
The Daulton Collection
Plate 12 from Brömse's print cycle, Tod und Mädchen. This impression is a signed proof of the commonly encountered version that was published as an unsigned art supplement in Die Graphischen Künste, Vol. 30, 1907, after page 106.
References:
Karel M. Kuzmany, "Jüngere österreichische Graphiker," Die Graphischen Künste, Vol. 30, 1907, pg. 110: "'Eine Tote' wird schließlich über die stygische, dunkle Flut vom Knochenmann sorglich heimgeleitet, auf dem Rücken eines schlangenähnlichen Gebildes" ["'A dead' woman is finally carefully led home over the Stygian, dark flood by the skeleton, on the back of a snake-like structure"].
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The Daulton Collection owns another signed impression of "Eine Todte":
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August Brömse (Czech, Franzensbad/Františkovy Lázně 1873-1925 Prague)
"Eine Todte" ("A Dead Woman")
c. 1902
etching on bluish China, rolled on chamois-colored vellum paper
13,2 x 29,7 cm (plate edge); 21,5 x 36 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "August Brömse"
The Daulton Collection
an excellent, differentiated and burred impression with wide margins
condition: minimally dusty; a very small spot in the right white margin; very minimal creases in the white margin; otherwise very good and freshly preserved.
One of Brömse's rare early symbolist prints; from the cycle "Death and the Maiden", created between 1902 and 1903 while he was still in West Bohemia, which received the gold medal at the Palais du Travail in Paris in 1906 and was also published as a print in Die Graphischen Künste, Vol. 30, in 1907.
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August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925) In den Birken [In the Birches]
circa 1900-1910 etching and aquatint in colors on paper trial proof 11,8 x 7,8 cm (plate)
signed lower right in pencil: "A Brömse" titled lower left in pencil: "In den Birken" The Daulton Collection
Probably a rejected plate for Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen. This plate does not appear in the published literature on Brömse and his work; and this impression may be unique.
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August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)
"Ein altes Lied" ["An Old Song"]
(Der fidelnde Tod betritt das Haus/Death fiddling enters the house)
1902
etching on grey-green rolled China paper
20 x 29,1 cm
signed and dated in pencil lower right: "Aug. Brömse 1902"
titled in pencil by the artist lower margin center: " 'Ein altes Lied' "
signed in pencil by the renowned printing house Otto Felsing lower left: "OFelsing Berlin gdr." ["printed (gedruckt) by O. Felsing Berlin"]
The Daulton Collection
a magnificent, wonderfully burred print, with wide margins.
condition: somewhat stained and foxed; slightly dusty; otherwise, a very fine copy.
a proof impression of Plate 6 from Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen. in a color variation that is different than the impression in the Amsterdam Portfolio.
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August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)
"Im Park" ["In the Park"] (Fidelnder Tod und Mädchen/Fiddling Death and Girl)
1902
etching on blue rolled China paper 26 x 19,7 cm
signed and dated in pencil lower right: "August Brömse 1902." titled in pencil by the artist lower margin center: " 'Im Park' " signed in pencil by the renowned printing house Otto Felsing lower left: "OFelsing Berlin gdr." ["printed (gedruckt) by O. Felsing Berlin"]
The Daulton Collection
a magnificent, burred print, with wide margins.
condition: somewhat stained and foxed; slightly dusty; otherwise, in very good condition.
a proof impression of Plate 7 from Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen. in a color variation that is different than the impression in the Amsterdam Portfolio.
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August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925) "Am Fenster" ["At (By) the Window"] 1902 etching and aquatint in colors trial proof of a pre-final state plate 16 x 9 cm monogrammed in the margin lower right: "A.B." verso with label of the artist's estate
The Daulton Collection
Trial proof of a pre-final state of Plate 5 from Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen.
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detail of verso showing label of artist's estate:
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