Fritz Schwimbeck
"Im Schnee" ["In the Snow"]
etching on handmade imperial "japan" paper ["auf kaiserlichem Handjapan"]
1918
20 x 14 cm
signed in pencil lower right: "F. Schwimbeck"
numbered in pencil lower left: "6" [number 6 of a deluxe edition of 25 on handmade imperial "japan" paper ("auf kaiserlichem Handjapan")]
The Daulton Collection
This is Plate 8 from a cycle of eight etchings on the theme of this strange house. The portfolio, entitled "Phantasien über ein altes Haus" ["Fantasies on an Old House"], was published in in Munich in 1918 with text by Hans Ludwig Held. The Daulton Collection contains the entire portfolio of eight etchings.