Artist
Bernhard Kretzschmar 1889 – 1972

About the work
The publisher Wolfgang Jess is depicted in a pensive pose: his right hand, slenderly drawn and adorned with a signet ring, is supporting his head. With clear, open eyes, the subject appears to be immersed in another, spiritual world and is thus presented as a sensitive and art-minded person.
This copy is the only known example of the etching, printed in a small edition, to have survived. Together with ten other prints by the artist, it was acquired by the Städtische Kunstsammlung in 1929.

Catalog raisonné
nicht bei Schmidt