Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)
Studies for the lost painting "Huldigung an die Schönheit" ["Homage to Beauty"]
circa 1890
red and black chalk on paper
45,5 x 33 cm
signed and inscribed lower right and center: "Greiner Otto" and "dunkelgrüner Grund mit Rot Gelb und Weiß" ["dark green background with red yellow and white"]
The Daulton Collection
in passepartout, mounted on left margin with adhesive strips
Provenance: private ownership, Germany
The Daulton Collection has discovered that this drawing is a rare sheet of studies for Greiner's painting "Huldigung an die Schönheit" ["Homage to Beauty"], circa 1890, presumed to be lost. A reproduction of the painting can be found in Julius Vogel, Otto Greiner (Bielefeld and Leipzig: Belhagen, 1925), after pg. 8, Abb. [ill.] 14.
Publication History of this Drawing:
Emanuele Bardazzi, Sogni d'Arcadia / Arkadische Traümerei: Sigmund Lipinsky e gli ultimi tedeschi-romani [Dreams of Arcadia: Sigmund Lipinsky and the last German-Romans] (Florence: Edizioni Polistampa / Leonardo Libri, 2025), illustrated at fig. 35, pg. 43 (as "Studio di figure, 1892 circa").
