Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)

Study of a Man Looking Upwards with Raised Left Hand,

a double-sided preliminary drawing for the lithograph "The Devil Presenting Woman to the World"

1897

black chalk (or charcoal) and pencil with white heightening on tan paper

38,9 x 28,3 cm (sheet)

center left in black chalk (or charcoal) dated "6.2.97," initialed "O.Gr.," and inscribed "Rom" ["Rome"]

possibly signed in pencil lower left margin: "O [?] Greiner"

inscription in black chalk or charcoal lower left margin: "Enrico marini, Via [indecipherable; an address in Italy?]"

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Provenance:

Collection Guido von Usedom (probably 1854-1925), Potsdam; his collector's stamp in black ink verso lower right corner: "Sammlung Guido v. Usedom."

Collection Eberhard Wolfram Grieb (1947-1990), Reutlingen/New York, with his collector's wet stamp, three nested rhombi in red ink (not in Lugt), lower right corner recto and verso.

Discussion:

This double-sided drawing consists of studies for Greiner's 1898 lithograph "Der Teufel zeigt das Weib dem Volke" ["The Devil Presenting Woman to the World"], also known as "Die Feilbietung" ["The Offering"], Sheet III of the print cycle "Vom Weib" ["From Woman"]; Sheet III is recorded in the Vogel catalogue raisonné of Greiner's graphic work as Nr. 72.  "The Devil Presenting Woman to the World" is perhaps Greiner's most widely known work.

Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)

Study of the Head of a Smiling Woman,

being a preliminary drawing for the figure of Woman in Greiner's 1898 lithograph "The Devil Presenting Woman to the World"

1897

red chalk on paper

39 x 28,5 cm (sheet)

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Publication History:

Julius Vogel, Otto Greiner (Bielefeld and Leipzig: Belhagen, 1925), pg. 68, ill. 85 (misidentified as study for the etching "Hexenschule").

Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)

Der Teufel zeigt das Weib dem Volke

(The Devil Presenting Woman to the World)

1898

lithograph

53,3 x 45,8 cm

lower right in pencil initialed "O.Gr." and inscribed "Nr. 35"

Sheet III from the print cycle Vom Weib

Vogel graphics catalogue raisonné, Nr.72

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Provenance:

Collection Walter Bareiss (Tübingen, Germany 1919 - 2007 Stamford, Connecticut).  Bareiss was a German-American businessman, who was known for his expansive and outstanding art collection, encompassing not only modern and contemporary German art, but also modern illustrated books, African sculpture, Japanese prints, and Chinese ceramics, among other areas.

Publication History of this impression:

Per Faxneld, Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century Culture (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2017), Page 272, Figure 7.3.

María Lorena Pérez Berges, Influencia de mitos y leyendas en la pintura europea del siglo XIX: la belleza de lo siniestro [Influence of Myths and Legends in European Painting of the 19th Century: The Beauty of the Sinister] (Doctoral Thesis, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 2019), pg. 429, ill. 198.

Literature regarding this print generally:

Julius Vogel, Otto Greiners Graphische Arbeiten in Lithographie, Stich und Radierung (Dresden: Ernst Arnold, 1917) (catalogue raisonne), Nr. 72, Tafel XXIV.

Michael Gibson, Symbolism (Cologne: Benedikt Taschen, 1995), pgs. 117 (ill.) and 131.

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Contact:

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