Rudolf Jettmar

Preparatory drawing for the poem of Arno Holz in Ver Sacrum

India ink on paper

1898

27,1 x 24 cm (10.7 x 9.4 in.)

signed lower right: Rudolf Jettmar

collector stamp verso: "Sammlung Schreinzer Wien"

Provenance:

Ex coll. Karl Schreinzer, a Viennese musician (double-bass) and member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

The above drawing was published in Ver Sacrum in November 1898, as the decorative border for a poem by Arno Holz.  See Ver Sacrum, Jahrgang I, Heft 11 (November 1898), pg. 7.

Rudolf Jettmar

Head of an Eagle, 

a preparatory sketch relating to an illustration for a poem of Richard Schaukal in Ver Sacrum

1900

pencil on paper

11 x 14,3 cm (sheet)

verso with handwritten note by Fritz Cernajsek: "von Prof. Rudolf Jettmar"

The drawing above of the head of an eagle and the drawing below of the talons of an eagle are preparatory sketches relating to an illustration that was published in Ver Sacrum in 1900 in connection with a poem of Richard Schaukal.  See Ver Sacrum, Nr. 23, 1900, pgs. 362-363.

Provenance:

Ex coll. Fritz (Friedrich Rudolf) Cernajsek (Wien 1910 - 1996 Perchtoldsdorf), painter and graphic artist, who was a student of Jettmar

Antiquariat Meindl & Sulzmann OG, Vienna, from whom acquired by The Daulton Collection in 2024

References:

Annalia Delneri, et al., Simbolismo Secessione -- Jettmar ai confine dell’Impero, (Gorizia: Castello di Gorizia, 1992), unnumbered pgs. 56-57.

Rudolf Jettmar

Talons of an Eagle, 

a preparatory sketch relating to an illustration for a poem of Richard Schaukal in Ver Sacrum

1900

pencil on paper

11 x 7 cm (sheet)

The Daulton Collection