Otto Greiner

Study for "The Devil Presenting Woman to the World"

1897, pencil on paper

 

Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)

 

study for the lithograph

Der Teufel zeigt das Weib dem Volke

(The Devil Presenting Woman to the World)

1897

pencil on paper

monogrammed O.Gr., dated 6.2.97, and inscribed Rom


Provenance:  Galleria dell'Incisione, Brescia


verso:

Study for the head of woman in the lithograph Der Teufel zeigt das Weib dem Volke (The Devil Presenting Woman to the World)

1897

pencil drawing, verso

The Daulton Collection

Publication History:

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

Der Teufel zeigt das Weib dem Volke

(The Devil Presenting Woman to the World)

lithograph

1898

in pencil monogrammed O.Gr. and inscribed Nr. 35

from the print cycle Vom Weib

Vogel 72

The Daulton Collection


Provenance:


ex coll. Walter Bareiss, New York (1919-2007)



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.

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.



detail 1:

detail 2:

Portrait of Otto Greiner

vintage photograph,

gelatin printing out paper (gelatin POP)

c. 1911

photographer unknown

on verso, signed "O. Greiner" and inscribed

The Daulton Collection

  



  


verso:

verso with Greiner's signature and inscription

Contact:

Jack Daulton

The Daulton Collection

Los Altos Hills, California

info@symbolismus.com