Fidus (Luebeck 1868-1948 Woltersdorf bei Berlin), birthname Hugo Hoeppener

"Luzifer," also titled by the artist as "Luzifer-Antlitz" ["Lucifer-Face"]

1898

pencil on laid paper

lower left titled, monogrammed, and dated: "Lucifer" / "F. XII. 98"

lower left inscribed: "© ST.G.B." (St. Georgs-Bund)

Provenance:  

Estate of author Gertrud Prellwitz (1869-1942).  On the frame backing board stamped: "Gertrud Prellwit[z] Oberhof im Thüringer Wald" (see below)

Publication History:

Fiduswerk.  Dresden: Schoenheit, 1924.  S. 142.

Anton Becke, Berlin

"Portrait of Fidus"

photograph

circa 1928

Provenance: Estate of author Gertrud Prellwitz

The Daulton Collection

 

On an autographed postcard of "Luzifer-Antlitz" from 1944, Fidus commented on this drawing:

Lucifer "is the eternal exciter of self-awareness, initially erring in the details ... but finally recognizing the Logos in the event and maturing into Christos." 

[Luzifer "ist der ewige Erreger des Ichbewußtseins, im Einzelnen anfangs irrend ... schließlich aber den Logos im Geschehen erkennend und zum Christos reifend."]