Fidus (Luebeck 1868-1948 Woltersdorf bei Berlin), also known as Hugo Hoeppener
"Der Tempel der Erde" ("The Temple of Earth")
1895 and 1901
ink pen and brush on cardboard
framed
image 41 x 49 cm
sheet 42,4 x 50,3 cm
frame 48,5 x 57 cm
inscribed, signed, and dated upper right: "Der Tempel der Erde," "Fidus," "1895 u 1901"
partially erased and indecipherable inscription by the artist in pencil at left along the bottom margin
on the verso, bottom right collector's stamp in violet and numbered in pen in black: "Eugen Lucius Frankfurt a.M. No. 12."
The Daulton Collection
Provenance:
Industrialist Dr. Eugen Lucius (1834-1903), Frankfurt a.M, who acquired the drawing directly from the artist between 1894 and 1903
Exhibitions:
"Monte Verità, Berg der Wahrheit," Akademie de Künste, Berlin, 1979.
"Künstler und Propheten. Eine geheime Geschichte der Moderne 1872-1872," Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, March 6-June 14, 2015.
"Artists and Prophets: Schiele, Hundertwasser, Kupka, Beuys and Others," National Gallery Prague (Trade Fair Palace), Czech Republic, July 21 - October 17, 2015.
Publication History:
1918 Max Hayek, "Fidus. Zum 50. Geburtstag des Künstlers," Reclams Universum. Illustrierte Wochenschrift (Leipzig, 1918), Heft 1, pgs. 5-8, ill. at pg. 6.
1921 Junge Menschen, 2. Jahrgang, Heft 6, Ende März 1921, illustrated at pg. 86.
1925 Arno Rentsch, Fiduswerk (Dresden: Verlag der Schönheit, 1925), pg. 124, Ill. 140.
1980 Harold Szeemann, et al., Monte Verità, Berg der Wahrheit (Locarno: Armando Dadò, 1978-1980; Milan: Electra Editrice, 1978-1980), ill. pg. 92.
1985 Rainer Y, Fidus, der Tempelkünstler. Interpretation im kunsthistorischen Zusammenhang mit Katalog der utopischen Architekturentwürfe, 2 Bde., Diss. Regensburg 1982 (Göppingen: Kümmerle Verlag, 1985), Nr. 36.
1995 Jost Hermand, Avantgarde und Regression: 200 Jahre deutsche Kunst (Leipzig: Edition Leipzig, 2001), illustrated at pg. 83.
2001 Kai Buchholz, et al., eds., Die Lebensreform: Entwürfe zur Neugestaltung von Leben und Kunst um 1900 (Darmstadt: Verlag Häusser, 2001) (Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt exhibition catalogue), Band II, ill. at pg. 85 (Kat. 2.20).
2009 Michael Buhrs, ed., Karl Wilhelm Diefenbach (1851-1913) Lieber sterben, als meine Ideale verleugnen! (Munich: Museum Villa Stuck and Edition Minerva, 2009), pg. 208, ill. 169.
2015 Pamela Kort and Max Hollein, Künstler und Propheten. Eine geheime Geschichte der Moderne 1872-1972 (Frankfurt am Main, Schirn Kunsthalle 2015), Cat. Nr. 76 with ill. at pg. 87.
2017 Massimo Introvigne, "Fidus (1868-1948)," Aries, Journal for the Study of Western Esotericism 17 (Leiden: Brill, 2017), 215-242, illustrated at pg. 229, Fig, 7 (as "Project for a Temple of the Earth").
