Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972)
"Tod im All" ["Death Encompasses All," also known as "Death in the Universe" and as "Death in Space"]
1913
ink drawing: pen and brush in black
28 x 20,9 cm
monogrammed "FS" lower left
signed again in black pen on verso and dated October 14, 1913 (last digit indistinct)
The Daulton Collection
The above drawing is a finished study for Plate IV of the portfolio of eight etchings, "Werden-Vergehen" ["Creation and Death"], published by Parcus & Co., München 1919.
The Daulton Collection owns finished preparatory drawings for five of the plates of that portfolio.
Provenance: from the collection of Carl Laszlo (1923 Pécz - 2013 Basel), the noted Hungarian-Swiss art dealer, art collector, psychoanalyst, and author.
"The Munich artist Fritz Schwimbeck is best known for his book illustrations of the 1910s and 20s on dark romanticism and fantasy, and for his numerous graphic cycles during the horrors of the First World War, but also for his atmospheric, often dark and densely hatched, pen drawings." B
"Der Münchener Künstler Fritz Schwimbeck ist vor allem für seine Buchillustrationen zur schwarzen Romantik und Phantastik der 1910er und 20er bekannt und schuf unter den Schrecken des Ersten Weltkrieges zahlreiche graphische Zyklen, aber auch charakteristische, atmosphärische, oft dunkel und dicht schraffierte Federzeichnungen." B
