Fritz Schwimbeck

Fantasies on an Old House,

various media, 

1917-1927
 
Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972) 
"Auflösung" ["Disintegration"]
1917
pen and ink drawing on paper
18,1 x 13,2 cm

This is a preliminary drawing for Plate 4 of Schwimbeck's cycle of eight etchings "Phantasien über ein altes Haus" ["Fantasies on an Old House"].  The etching (The Daulton Collection's studio-proof impression of Plate 4) has been published as the cover illustration of an anthology of haunted-house stories entitled Crooked Houses, ed. Mark Beech (UK: Egaeus Press, 2020).  See:  http://www.egaeuspress.com/Crooked_Houses.html

Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972)

"Night"

1927

oil on cardboard

35 x 27,5 cm

signed and dated lower right: "F. Schwimbeck 1927"

The Daulton Collection
Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972) 
"Im Schnee" ["In the Snow"]
1917
pen and ink drawing on paper
21,2 x 14,2 cm
signed lower right: Fritz Schwimbeck
dated verso: 22.IV.1917
The Daulton Collection

This is a preliminary drawing for Plate 8 of Schwimbeck's cycle of eight etchings "Phantasien über ein altes Haus" ["Fantasies on an Old House"].  For the etching based upon this drawing, see below.
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.

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Jack Daulton

The Daulton Collection

Los Altos Hills, California

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