A detail from Plate 10 of Otto Weigel's cycle of 10 original etchings entitled Tod und Liebe. Opus I [Death and Love. Opus I], published in 1919. The Daulton Collection owns the entire cycle of ten prints, superb impressions, probably proofs, and, in addition, four proof impressions of pre-final states of four of the plates in the cycle.
The Leipzig-based German painter, graphic artist, and art educator Otto Weigel (Theißen1890-1945 Leipzig) was a pupil of Alois Kolb in Leipzig and of Peter Halm, with whom he studied drawing at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts [Königlichen Akademie der Bildenden Künste] in Munich. Study trips took him to Holland, Belgium, and Sweden. Later, in Leipzig, Weigel taught at the Gaudigschule, the Thomasschule, and the Meisterschule des Deutschen Handwerks. His phantasmagoric graphic cycles show the influence of the similar work of his predecessors the fellow-Leipzig artists Max Klinger and Otto Greiner.
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 1 (Title Page) from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper 18,4 x 27,7 cm (plate); 28,8 x 39,2 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 1" ["Sheet 1"]
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 2 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper 13,4 x 15,3 cm (plate); 29,3 x 39,3 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 2" ["Sheet 2"]
The Daulton Collection
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 3 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper (lower margin deckle edge) 13,9 x 17,8 cm (plate); 29 x 38,9 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 3" ["Sheet 3"]
The Daulton Collection
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 4 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper 13,9 x 16 cm (plate); 27,9 x 38,6 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 4" ["Sheet 4"]
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 5 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper (lower margin deckle edge) 12 x 21,8 cm (plate); 27,8 x 36,5 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 5" ["Sheet 5"]
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 6 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper (lower margin deckle edge) 14,9 x 20,1 cm (plate); 27,7 x 36,5 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 6" ["Sheet 6"]
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
The 1st state of Sheet 6 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on firm paper 14,6 x 19,9 cm (plate); 27 x 29,1 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "1. Zŭstand 1. Druck (2)" ["1st state, 1st impression of 2"] dated in pencil lower left: "30.XII.19" [December 30, 1919]
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condition: paper overall somewhat browned
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 7 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper (lower margin deckle edge) 10,5 x 12 cm (plate); 27,9 x 36,4 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 7" ["Sheet 7"]
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
The 1st state of Sheet 7 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper (left margin deckle edge) 10,6 x 12,1 cm (plate); 22,9 x 29,8 cm (sheet)
inscribed in pencil lower left: "1. Zŭst. Druck" ["1st state, 1st impression"] dated in pencil lower left: "18. Nov. 19" [November 18, 1919]
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
The 2nd state of Sheet 7 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on firm paper or card 10,5 x 12,2 cm (plate); 18,8 x 18,8 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "2.Zŭst. 1 Druck (7)" ["2nd state, 1st impression of 7 (?)"] dated in pencil lower left: "20. Nov. 19" [November 18, 1919]
The Daulton Collection
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 8 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper (lower margin deckle edge) 13,8 x 17,8 cm (plate); 28,2 x 37,6 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 8" ["Sheet 8"]
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 9 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper (lower margin deckle edge) 11,8 x 15,5 cm (plate); 28,2 x 37,4 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 9" ["Sheet 9"]
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
Sheet 10 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on laid paper (lower margin deckle edge) 8,1 x 17 cm (plate); 27,6 x 36,4 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "Otto Weigel" inscribed in pencil lower left: "Blatt 10" ["Sheet 10"]
The Daulton Collection
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Otto Weigel (1890-1950)
The 1st state of Sheet 10 from the cycle of ten etchings Tod und Liebe [Death and Love], Opus I
1919 etching on firm paper 8 x 16,6 cm (plate); 22,7 x 31,7 cm (sheet)
signed in pencil lower right: "OttoW//" inscribed in pencil lower left: "1. Zŭstand 1. Druck (3)" ["1st state, 1st impression of 3"]
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condition: browning (acid burn) along left and lower margin
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