Galizischer Bletter

Galizischer Bletter is a fine black and white etching on cream-colored paper, realized by Erich Wolfsfeld (Krojanke, 1884 - London, 1956).

From the portfolio Freunde Graphischer Kunst , Leipzig, 1915.

In excellent conditions, with the original cream-colored cardboard passepartout presenting the drystamp of the publishing house " III. s " at the center on the lower margin. A little rip on the lower right corner of the passepartout.

This modern original print, representing a begging homeless, demonstrates the artist's great human and pictorial sensitivity, and it is surely an artwork conceived in his Roman period, when this kind of subject matters was frequent in his artistic production.

Erich Wolfsfeld  (Krojanke, 1884 - London, 1956) learned to etch in the studio of Hans Meyer. From 1907, he worked in Rome, where he met Otto Greiner and painted Italian beggars. In 1905, he was commissioned various etched copies of Byzantine frescoes in the classical ruins of Priene by the Prussian government, for a report on the excavations, now lost. In 1911, he won the Kaiser Wilhelm Gold Medal for his work  The Archers . At the outbreak of the First World War, he spent two years in the army as an officer, and studied the wounded soldiers for his art. The war and the Nazi regime forced Wolfsfeld out of Germany, so he settled in England in 1939. In 1953, Derby Museum and Art Gallery granted him a solo show. His works are preserved in the major museums of the world, like the British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Imperial War Museum, Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, Germanisches National Museum in Nuremburg, Albertina in Vienna, Gabinetto Nazionale della Stampe in Rome, Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, among others.