Rudolf Jettmar (1869 Zawodzie bei Krakau - Wien 1939)
"Die Sirenen" ["The Sirens"]
1896
pen and ink with wash and watercolor on wove paper, laid down on backing cardboard
approx. 31 x 21 cm (backing cardboard approx. 38 x 29 cm)
signed and dated lower right: Rudolf Jettmar 96
Provenance:
Estate of the artist; thence by descent in his family in Baden-Württemberg.
Exhibition History:
1969/70 Rudolf Jettmar, Gedächtnisausstellung des graphischen Werks aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstags und des 30. Todestages des Künstlers, Wiener Secession, Wien [Memorial exhibition of the graphic work on the occasion of the 100th birthday and the 30th anniversary of the artist's death, Vienna Secession, Vienna]
This drawing is the predicate for Jettmar's etching of the same name. See: Hofstätter catalogue raisonne, Rw 72.
