Ida Teichmann (Fries 1874-after 1925 Frankfurt am Main), also known as Idi Teichmann
Three Girls Sleeping
circa 1917-1925
lithograph on chamois-colored China paper
image 16,5 x 30,7 cm; sheet 21,5 x 32,8 cm
signed in pencil lower right: "I.Teichmann"
The Daulton Collection
condition: lower left and upper right corner somewhat creased.
References for this lithograph:
Die Schönheit, 1917. Die Schönheit [The Beauty] was a monthy magazine published in Dresden from 1915 to 1932 (in Berlin, Leipzig, and Vienna from 1902 to 1914).
Discussion:
"The German Ida Teichmann [was] a very fine artist who specialized in brilliant, realistic pencil studies of young women," often "a supremely sensuous depiction of erotic lassitude." Bram Dijkstra, Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), at pg. 156, ill. V, 32. See, e.g., Ida Teichmann 3 on the Symbolismus website, hereinbelow. She published in the art nouveau periodical Jugend in 1918. Dijkstra at pg. 191.
