Fidus (Luebeck 1868-1948 Woltersdorf bei Berlin), also known as Hugo Hoeppener
"Polka I-IV"
four sheets
1894
pen and brown ink on brown paper
each 50 x 35,5 cm (19 5/8 x 14 in.)
"Polka I" signed, dated, and titled lower left: "Fidus - 94 Polka I"
"Polka II-IV" each signed and titled lower left.
The Daulton Collection
Provenance: Industrialist Dr. Eugen Lucius (1834-1903), Frankfurt a.M, who acquired the drawings directly from the artist in 1897.
Hippie style in 1894: Polka I-IV, a set of four ink drawings by Fidus (1868-1948), the proto-hippie German artist. His visionary artwork would later have an influence upon the rock-concert poster art produced in San Francisco in the 1960s.
Publication History:
Jugend, 1897, No. 10, all four sheets illustrated.
Tänze von Fidus (Minden i. W.: J.C.C. Bruns Hof Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1902), ills. (Polka II and Polka IV).
Festzeitung für das 12. Deutsche Turnfest, Leipzig 1913 [Festival Newspaper for the 12th German Gymnastics Festival, Leipzig 1913], Nr. 3 (Leipzig: Verlag Paul Eberhardt, 1913), ills. at pg. 60 (Polka II) and pg. 61 (Polka III).
"Fidus," Moderne illustrierte Zeitung für Reise und Sport, Heft 3, March 1917, pgs. 23-28, ill. pg. 23 (Polka II) and ill. pg. 24 (Polka IV).
Fidus (Hugo Höppener) Mappe II. 12 Kunstdrucke aus der "Jugend." (München: Verlag der "Jugend," 1919), Plate 3 (Polka I-IV).
Karl-Ludwig Barkhausen, " Fidus in der Lüneburger Heide," www.academia.edu, 2019, ill. pg. 34 (Polka II). https://www.academia.edu/39919929/Fidus_in_der_L%C3%BCneburger_Heide
