Willi Geiger (German, 1877-1951)
Die Verwandlungen der Venus
portfolio of ten plates, one shown above, plus three sheets with title, contents, and text by Richard Dehmel
1909, Verlag Bischoff und Höfle, München
etchings and aquatint in brown on cardboard (title, contents, and text on laid paper) in silk-covered portfolio
59 x 48 cm (portfolio)
The Daulton Collection
contents: Venus Anadyomene, Venus Primitiva, Venus Pandermos, Venus Socia, Venus Mater, Venus Mamma, Venus Perversa, Venus Mystica, Venus Mors, and Venus Heroica.
from a total edition of 150
In 1907, author Richard Dehmel had compiled thirty of his erotic poems and published them, to great controversy, under the title Die Verwandlungen der Venus [The Transformations (or Metamorphoses) of Venus]. Geiger illustrates ten of these poems in this portfolio of 1909.
