Willi Münch-Khe (German, 1885-1961)
Portrait of the Symbolist Artist Hans Thoma on his 75th Birthday
1914/15
black chalk, opaque white, and blue on greenish wove paper
33,8 x 27,6 cm
signed (Willi Münch-Khe), dated ("1914/15 fec."), and dedicated (to "J. A. Beringer") lower right
titled bottom right: "Hans Thoma zum 75 Geburtstag" ["Hans Thoma on his 75th Birthday"]
Dedicated to the art historian Joseph August Beringer (1862-1937), who was the leading authority on the work of Hans Thoma and who compiled the catalogue raisonné of Thoma's etchings.
