Junge Frau mit Blumenvase

Junge Frau mit Blumenvase (Young Woman with a flower vase)  is a wonderful black and white etching with aquatint and drypoint interventions on cream-colored paper, realized in 1910 by the artist Karl Koepping . Published by Gesellscaft für vervielfältigende Kunst, Wien.

Author, technique, and publishing house printed on plate on the lower margin.  In excellent conditions.

This modern artwork represents a young smiling woman with a flower vase. The etching was realized with very wise touch and modulations of the black.

Karl Köpping or Karl Koepping (Dresden, 1848 - Berlin, 1914) was a German painter, engraver, and glassmaker, who began studying painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1871. Mainly devoted to the art of engraving, realizing etchings based on famous works, especially those by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Thomas Gainsborough, and Mihály Munkácsy, Koepping also crafted some intricate glass objects in the art nouveau style.

In 1889, he became the director of the master studio for copper engraving at the Berlin Academy of Arts, and worked for the magazine Pan from 1896 to 1900. He received the Order of Knights of the Legion of Honor and the First Class Medal of the Munich Art Exhibition, as well as the Grand Prix of the 1889 Paris World Fair.