Rudolf Jettmar

"Der Brand" ["The Fire"]

1904

gouache, pencil and ink on slightly textured greenish paper, mounted on thin cardboard

approx. 25 x 19 cm 

condition: cardboard corners slightly bumped, otherwise in good condition

Provenance: Estate of the artist; thence by descent in his family in Baden-Württemberg

Exhibition History:

1975              Rudolf Jettmar, Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg, Germany

This drawing is a study for the etching of the same name from the cycle "Stunden der Nacht" [“Hours of the Night”] , Plate 9, reproduced on this webpage, below:

Rudolf Jettmar

"Der Brand" ["The Fire"]

1904

etching, aquatint, and drypoint

24,8 x 18,8 cm (plate)

signed in pencil lower left within the plate mark: "Rudolf Jettmar"

titled and plate-numbered on the lower right of the sheet: "Der Brand 9"

The Daulton Collection

Provenance: Estate of the artist; thence by descent in his family in Baden-Württemberg

This etching is Plate 9 from the twelve-plate cycle "Stunden der Nacht" [“Hours of the Night”], 1901-1905.  The Daulton Collection owns the estate copy of the entire cycle.

Publication History:

1984                Hans H. Hofstätter, Rudolf Jettmar (Vienna: Tusch, 1984), Rw 61, ill. 86 (pg. 138); the catalogue raisonne.