Simms (Dr. Richard A.) collection of prints and drawings by Käthe Kollwitz and other artists

Käthe Kollwitz, Series I. 1888-1993, undated

Physical Description: 97.28 Linear Feet(29 boxes, 2 flat file folders)

Scope and Contents

Series I. consists of prints and drawings by Käthe Kollwitz assembled by Dr. Simms in Europe and the United States between 1973 and 2014. Included are 239 graphic works in intaglio, woodcut and lithography, and fifty drawings; a totalling 289 artworks.

Dating from 1891 to 1941, the prints represent the entire spectrum of Kollwitz's graphic work. As several proof impressions and states of a print are frequently present, the collection provides a unique opportunity to explore the progression of Kollwitz's artistic vision from state to state through analysis of her often innovative and experimental application of printing tools and techniques, and testifies to the collector's particular interest in Kollwitz's artistic workshop and her understanding of the printing process.

The drawings date from 1888 to 1928, with the bulk dating from the late 1890s and the early 1900s and from 1919 and the early 1920s. Numerous drawings are preparatory studies for prints, that are present in the collection. Several drawings are not mentioned in the catalogue raisonné by Otto Nagel and Werner Timm.In addition, there are four published portfolios with editioned prints by Kollwitz; modern exhibition posters and other illustrated matter related to Kollwitz, including four vintage portrait photographs of Kollwitz; and thirty letters and postcards sent by the artist between 1898 and 1943.

Arrangement

Arranged into five subseries: Series I.A. Prints, Series I.B. Drawings, Series I.C. Portfolios of prints, Series I.D. Posters and other illustrated matter, Series I.E. Letters sent.

Prints, Series I.A. 1891-1941

Physical Description: 67.5 Linear Feet(18 oversize solander boxes)

Scope and Contents

Dating from 1891 to 1941, the Kollwitz prints from the Simms collection represent the entire spectrum of the artist's graphic work in intaglio, woodcut, and lithography. Present are 239 prints, including sheets printed on both sides (Knesebeck 151.I and Knesebeck 165.I).

The intaglio prints are executed predominantly in line or brush etching, drypoint, lift-ground or reservage, and soft ground; often with addition of aquatint; and the evidence of the use of experimental tools, such as sandpaper, burnisher, or needle bundle. Most lithographs are crayon transfer lithographs of drawings. Frequently present are several proof impressions and states of a print, which demonstrate the progression of Kollwitz's artistic vision from state to state and her often innovative and experimental application of printing tools, a "hands-on" treatment of the copper plate and the woodblock, or the choice of various, and often unusual printing and transfer papers. Additions by hand in charcoal, pigment, or ink also mark the artistic progression from state to state. An example of Kollwitz's experimental approach to printing is the combination print from two multicolored copperplates Woman with Orange ( Frau mit Orange) from 1901. The woodcut Woman in the Lap of Death ( Tod mit Frau im Schoss), from 1920-1921, is represented in the collection with a rejected first version and six various states of the third final version.

Among Kollwitz's early prints are female and male figures, scenes from the life of the working class, self-portraits, and a scene inspired by Émil Zola's novel Germinal.

Present are all six sheets from the series A Weavers' Revolt ( Ein Weberaufstand), seminal for Kollwitz's artistic career, as well as all seven sheets from the equally important series Peasant's War ( Bauernkrieg). Both series are represented with several states of each sheet and with rejected versions of sheets not included in the final series. The series War ( Krieg), from 1922 and 1923, executed in woodcut, is represented with rejected versions of sheet 3 The Parents ( Die Eltern) and sheet 7 The People ( Das Volk), and with two various states of the final version of sheet 7. The series Proletariat from 1924 and 1925 is represented with a rejected version and two states of the final version of sheet 1 Unemployed ( Erwerbslos), and with four various states of the final version of sheet 2 Hunger.

Kollwitz's famous image Woman with Dead Child ( Frau mit totem Kind), from 1903, which marks the most innovative time in her career as a graphic artist, is represented with an early and a late state of the print as well as with the drawing from the same year. Another well-known image by Kollwitz is the etching Death, Woman, and Child ( Tod, Frau und Kind) from 1910, of which three various states are included in the collection. Also present are various states for the rejected first and second versions, and the third final version of the woodcut commemorating the death of the German communist Karl Liebknecht, from 1919 and 1920; as well as three preparatory drawings from 1919.

In her later etchings, woodcuts, and lithographs Kollwitz continued to address hardships in the living conditions of the working class and the impact of war, especially in the lives of mothers and children, in post-World War I Germany. The collection includes several prints with the theme of death, motherhood, and child mortality. Several prints document Kollwitz's political engagement, such as an early proof impression from the original stone for the poster Help Russia ( Hilft Russland), from 1921, which she produced for the German communist group Komite Arbeiterhilfe in Berlin in order to raise awareness of famine in post-revolutionary Russia.

Also included with the prints are approximately seventeen self-portraits by Kollwitz, from an early work from 1893 showing her seated at a table, to her last self-portrait in profile, at old age, from 1938. The crayon lithograph Call of Death ( Ruf des Todes), presumably from 1937, depicts a female figure resembling the artist.

The Simms collection includes the artist's last graphic work, the rare crayon transfer lithograph Seed for Sowing Should Not Be Milled ( Saatfrüchte sollen nicht vermahlen werden), which Kollwitz produced in 1941 in a limited edition of approximately eleven copies. Produced at the time of war waged by Nazi Germany, this print expresses deep antiwar sentiment and is considered Kollwitz's legacy.

The English and German titles of the prints are supplied from the catalogue raisonné by Alexandra von dem Knesebeck Käthe Kollwitz Werkverzeichnis der Graphik, which is published in German and includes an electronic translation in English. The dates of the prints are also supplied from the catalogue raisonné by Knesebeck. The printing techniques are largely based on information provided by Knesebeck; however, the techniques of the specific proof impression or state at hand may vary and are subject to further research.Occasionally mentioned mat descriptions relate to mats in which the artwork was received by the repository.

Arrangement

The prints are listed numerically and chronologically in the order of the catalogue raisonné Käthe Kollwitz Werkverzeichnis der Graphik by Alexandra von dem Knesebeck. Knesebeck numbers are listed together with the corresponding numbers from the catalogue raisonné by August Klipstein. The lithograph poster Poster for the Hedwig-Wangel-Hilfe e.V ( Plakat für die Hedwig-Wangel-Hilfe e.V) and the photolithograph poster Homecoming ( Die Heimkehr), which are not included by Knesebeck's and Klipstein's catalogues raisonné, are listed at the end of the subseries.

box 1

Seated Male Nude ( Sitzender männlicher Akt), 4.IIa (Knesebeck); 4.IIa (Klipstein) 1891

Seated Male Nude (Sitzender männlicher Akt)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945

Creator: Kollwitz, Hans, 1892-1971

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: line etching and drypoint in black ink on copperplate paper. Dimensions: plate mark 15.8 x 12.9 cm, sheet 41 x 32 cm. Signatures: signed by Käthe Kollwitz in pencil in lower right and with her inscription "Druck von unverstählter Platte 1891" below the plate mark. State: Knesebeck state IIa, Klipstein state IIa, proof annotated by the artist as before steelfacing. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Estate of Käthe Kollwitz; Hans Kollwitz. Recto: small letter x and the markings K4 and KN4IIa are inscribed in pencil in the lower margin of sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Nudes (representations)

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Drypoints (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 1

Three Workers at a Tavern Table ( Drei Arbeiter am Wirtshaustisch), 11.I (Knesebeck); 17.I (Klipstein) 1891 or 1892

Three Workers at a Tavern Table (Drei Arbeiter am Wirtshaustisch)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Kollwitz, Hans, 1892-1971

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: line etching, drypoint and sandpaper in black ink on China paper mounted on copperplate paper. Dimensions: image 14.5 x 12.2 cm, plate mark 18 x 13 cm, sheet 35 x 25.3 cm. Signatures: unsigned. State: Knesebeck state I, Klipstein state I. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Hans Kollwitz. Verso: inscribed in pencil "Eigentum Hans Kollwitz."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Drypoints (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 1

Welcome ( Begrüssung), 13.I (Knesebeck); 10.I (Klipstein) 1892

Welcome (Begrüssung)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945

Creator: Kollwitz, Hans, 1892-1971

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: line etching and drypoint in black ink on white copperplate paper. Dimensions: image on Japan paper 11.3 x 8.2 cm, plate mark 11.8 x 8.8 cm, sheet 29.7 x 21.5 cm. Signatures: signed by Käthe Kollwitz in pencil in lower right and with her handwritten dedication to her son Hans Kollwitz Für Hans in besonderem Gedenken zum 14. Mai 1937. State: Knesebeck state I, Klipstein state I. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Estate of Käthe Kollwitz; Hans Kollwitz. Recto: inscribed in pencil in the lower left corner of sheet a small letter x and the numbers I.936 and in the lower right corner of sheet KL10. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Drypoints (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 1

Praying Young Woman ( Betendes Mädchen), 14.Ib (Knesebeck); 11.IIa (Klipstein) 1892

Praying Young Woman (Betendes Mädchen)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Felsing, Otto, 1854-

Creator: Fox, Gordon

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: line etching, drypoint, and aquatint in black ink on Japan paper. Dimensions: plate mark 19.4 x 14.8 cm, sheet 33 x 25 cm. Signatures: signed by Käthe Kollwitz in pencil in lower right and with her inscription "Druck von unverstählter Platte" below the plate mark, Felsing's signature in lower left. Printer: Otto Felsing. State: Knesebeck state Ib, Klipstein state IIa. Edition: proof annotated by the artist as before steelfacing, not before 1910. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Gordon Fox collection, Canada. Recto: traces of erased inscriptions in pencil along the lower margin and in the lower right corner of sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in pencil "II.a R R." Lugt: 4395. Note: Gift of Dr. Richard A. Simms in honor of Elizabeth Perlinger.

See also: 14.Ic, 14.Ie (Knesebeck) in Box 1.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Drypoints (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 1

Praying Young Woman ( Betendes Mädchen), 14.Ic (Knesebeck); 11.IIa (Klipstein) 1892

Praying Young Woman (Betendes Mädchen)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Neumann, Lotar, -1992

Creator: Felsing, Otto, 1854-

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: line etching, drypoint, and aquatint in brown ink on Japan paper. Dimensions: plate mark 19.4 x 14.8 cm, sheet 33 x 25 cm. Signatures: signed by Käthe Kollwitz in pencil in lower right, signed by Felsing in lower left. Printer: Otto Felsing. State: Knesebeck state Ic, Klipstein state II2. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Lotar Neumann collection. Recto: inscribed in pencil along the lower margin "K11, 1888." Verso: collector's wet stamp "LN" within circle. Lugt: Neumann's stamp not in Lugt.

See also: 14.Ib, 14.Ie (Knesebeck) in Box 1.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Drypoints (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 1

Praying Young Woman ( Betendes Mädchen), 14.Ie (Knesebeck); 11.IIb (Klipstein) 1892

Praying Young Woman (Betendes Mädchen)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Felsing, Otto, 1854-

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: line etching, drypoint, and aquatint in brown ink on copperplate paper. Dimensions: plate mark 19.4 x 14.8 cm, sheet 45.3 x 31.6 cm. Signatures: signed by Käthe Kollwitz in pencil in lower right, Felsing's signature in lower left. Printer: Otto Felsing. State: Knesebeck state Ie, Klipstein state IIb. Edition: Richter edition, 1918, 15/50. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: inscribed in pencil in the lower margin of sheet "K11, K11 IIb, 1869." Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner. Lugt: 4395.

See also: 14.Ib, 14.Ic (Knesebeck) in Box 1.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Drypoints (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 1

Four Men in a Pub ( Vier Männer in der Kneipe), 15.Ia (Knesebeck); 12.Ib (Klipstein) between 1892 and 1897

Four Men in a Pub (Vier Männer in der Kneipe)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Felsing, Wilhelm

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: line etching, drypoint, and sandpaper in black ink on Chine collé mounted on copperplate paper; the plate is not inked to the plate edges at top and bottom and accordingly the composition is only approximately 12 cm in height. Dimensions: mounted China sheet 12.3 x 15 cm, plate mark 12.9 x 15.9 cm, sheet 18.2 x 19.7 cm. Signatures: unsigned proof, with Felsing's embossed stamp at the plate edge in lower left W. Felsing gedr./Berlin. Printer: Wilhelm Felsing. State: Knesebeck state Ia, Klipstein state Ib, proof before 1910. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: inscribed in pencil in the lower left of sheet "Kl. 12 Ib." Verso: inscribed in pencil "K. 12."

See also: 98.V (Knesebeck) in Box 7.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 21

Boy Pulling a Plow ( Pflug ziehender Jüngling), 1906

Boy Pulling a Plow (Pflug ziehender Jüngling)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Ackermann, Johanna, 1889-1956

Creator: Sauerwein, Walter, 1889-1968

Creator: Tremmel, Ingeborg

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: crayon drawing with a touch of gouache on greenish wove paper. Dimensions: image 18 x 37 cm, sheet 22.6 x 47 cm. Signatures: signed and dated "Käthe Kollwitz/1906" in pencil in lower right. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ackermann & Sauerwein, Frankfurt; Ingeborg Tremmel collection, Bavaria. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number 103003818 inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Related work: drawing The Ploughmen ( Pflüger), Nagel/Timm 212; etching The Ploughmen ( Die Pflüger), sheet 1 of the cycle Peasants' War ( Bauernkrieg), Knesebeck 99, Klipstein 94.

See also: 99.V, 99.VI, and 99.VIII (Knesebeck) in Box 7.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Gouaches (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 21

The Ploughmen ( Die Pflüger), circa 1906

The Ploughmen (Die Pflüger)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal, pencil and white chalk on grey ribbed laid paper with "MBM" watermark. Dimensions: image 31.4 x 43.8 cm, sheet 45.8 x 58.5 cm. Signatures: signed in pencil "Kollwitz" in lower right. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: pencil sketch of a plow in the lower right corner of sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; illegible mark in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Related work: drawing The Ploughmen ( Die Pflüger), Nagel/Timm 210; etching The Ploughmen ( Die Pflüger), sheet 1 of the cycle Peasants' War ( Bauernkrieg), Knesebeck 99, Klipstein 94.

See also: 99.V, 99.VI, 99.VIII (Knesebeck) in Box 7.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 21

Raped Peasant Woman ( Vergewaltigte Bauersfrau), circa 1907

Raped Peasant Woman (Vergewaltigte Bauersfrau)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on thin laid paper with "France" watermark, mounted on stiff yellowish paper. Dimensions: image 31.5 x 53 cm, sheet 40 x 60.3 cm. Signatures: inscribed "Käthe Kollwitz" in pencil in lower right. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; "A842/724" inscribed in pencil in lower margin. Lugt: 4396. Related work: drawing Raped Peasant Woman ( Vergewaltigte Bauersfrau), Nagel/Timm 419; study for the etching Raped ( Vergewaltigt), sheet 2 of the cycle Peasants' War ( Bauernkrieg), Knesebeck 101, Klipstein 97.

See also: 101.III and 101.Va (Knesebeck) in Box 7.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 21

Two Sitting Men ( Zwei sitzende Männer), circa 1908-1909

Two Sitting Men (Zwei sitzende Männer)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on laid paper with "MBM" and "MBM (France)" watermarks. Dimensions: sheet 54.5 x 47.3 cm. Signatures: signed "Kollwitz" in pencil in lower right. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: numbers 6100 and 26604 marked in pencil. Related work: drawing Heated Shelter ( Wärmehallen), Nagel/Timm 469.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 21

Sacrifice ( Opfer), circa 1915

Sacrifice (Opfer)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on grey laid paper with "PL BAS" watermark. Dimensions: sheet 61.5 x 47.5 cm. Signatures: signed and inscribed in pencil "Käthe Kollwitz/zu "Opfer"" in the lower right. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Related work: drawing Standing Mother, Holding an Infant Close to Face ( Stehende Mutter, Säugling ans Gesicht drückend), Nagel/Timm 722; sheet 1 of the series War ( Krieg), Knesebeck 179, Klipstein 177.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 21

Recto: A Study for Hands ( Händestudien); Verso: A Sketch of a Man's Face ( Gesichtsskizze eines Mannes), circa 1919

Recto: A Study for Hands (Händestudien); Verso: A Sketch of a Man's Face (Gesichtsskizze eines Mannes)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Täubler, Helen

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on recto; charcoal and black ink on verso; on wove paper. Dimensions: recto image 66.5 x 42 cm, verso image 31 x 31 cm, sheet 76.7 x 53.6 cm. Signatures: signed "Käthe Kollwitz" in pencil on recto. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Helen Täubler, Berlin. Recto: inscribed "Nr. 5" in pencil in the lower left corner of sheet; number 5 inscribed, number 3 crossed out, "Hände" inscribed in pencil in the lower right corner of sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; "L40 Nr.5" inscribed in pencil in the margin at right. Lugt: 4395. Related work: drawing on recto is a study for the lithograph The Parents [ Die Eltern], Knesebeck 142, Klipstein 136; drawing on verso is a study for the lithograph "Release our Prisoners" [ "Heraus mit unsern Gefangenen"], Knesebeck 139, Klipstein 142.

See also: 142.a (Knesebeck) in Box 9; 139.II (Knesebeck) in Box 9.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 21

Woman in the Lap of Death ( Tod mit Frau im Schoss), circa 1921

Woman in the Lap of Death (Tod mit Frau im Schoss)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black wash and black and white ink on off-white wove paper; mounted on stiff white paper. Dimensions: sheet 45.5 x 44 cm. Signatures: signed "Käthe Kollwitz" in pencil below the image at right. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: inscribed in pencil "zu [illegible] 141"; "(7921)" in the lower left of sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Related work: originally the verso of drawing The Parents ( Die Eltern), Nagel/Timm 848; related to drawing Tod mit Frau im Schoss ( Woman in the Lap of Death), Nagel/Timm 880; study for the woodcut Tod mit Frau im Schoss ( Woman in the Lap of Death), Knesebeck 165, Klipstein 151.

See also: 165.I copy 1, 165.I copy 2, 165.II, 165.IV, 165.V, 165.VIIa, 165.VIIb (Knesebeck) in Box 11.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 21

Recto: Infant in the Mother's Lap ( Säugling im Schoss der Mutter); Verso: Two Studies of Infants' Heads ( Zwei Kopfstudien von Säuglingen), 1922

Recto: Infant in the Mother's Lap (Säugling im Schoss der Mutter); Verso: Two Studies of Infants' Heads (Zwei Kopfstudien von Säuglingen)

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Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 46 x 59 cm. Signatures: recto signed and dated "Käthe Kollwitz 1922" in pencil in lower right; verso unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: number 308 inscribed in pencil in lower margin. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; "nr/1,15" inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Related work: drawing Infant in the Mother's Lap ( Säugling im Schoss der Mutter), Nagel/Timm 951.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Portfolios of prints, Series I.C. 1920-circa 1950

Physical Description: 9.2 Linear Feet(5 boxes)

Arrangement

The portfolios are arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents

The four portfolios in the collection include foremost the so-called Richter-Mappe from 1920. The large velour-bound and gilt portfolio is part of Ausgabe A and contains facsimile reproductions in lithography of twenty-four drawings selected for this publication by Käthe Kollwitz herself. The scholarly community views Kollwitz's selection for the Richter-Mappe as indicative of the artist's opinion about her artworks.

Another portfolio titled Abschied und Tod, from 1924, reproduces in offset lithography eight drawings by Kollwitz from the years 1910 to 1923. The drawings correspond with Nagel/Timm numbers 609, 616, 862, 878, 882, 887, 888, 890.

Also present are two portfolios with etchings by Kollwitz printed and published posthumously by Alexander von der Becke approximately in 1950 in Munich.

box 49A, box 49B

Käthe Kollwitz, Handzeichnungen in originalgetreuen Wiedergaben, [1920]

Physical Description: 1 portfolio

box 50

Abschied und Tod, acht Zeichnungen, 1924

Physical Description: 1 portfolio

box 51

Käthe Kollwitz zehn Originalradierungen, ten etchings, circa 1950

Physical Description: 1 portfolio

box 52

Käthe Kollwitz acht Originalradierungen, eight etchings, circa 1950

Physical Description: 1 portfolio

Posters and other illustrated matter, Series I.D. 1925-1993, undated

Physical Description: 7.66 Linear Feet(2 boxes, 2 flat file folders)

Scope and Contents

The series includes seventeen exhibition posters dating from 1967 to 1993. Most posters are of exhibitions held in Germany at the Käthe Kollwitz Museum in Cologne and at various locations in Berlin. Also present are posters of Kollwitz exhibitions held in Switzerland: in Zurich (Galerie Daniel Keel, in 1972) and in Tereno [Locarno] (Galleria Matasci, in 1993). Posters from R.E. Lewis in San Francisco, the Stanford University Museum of Art, the Grossmont College Art Gallery in El Cajon, and the University Art Galleries in Riverside document Kollwitz exhibitions in California.

Included are seven facsimile reproductions of drawings and prints from the collection of the Käthe Kollwitz Sammlung der Kreissparkasse Köln.

Filed as printed matter are two illustrated covers of the magazine Jewish Community Press, from 1938; ephemeral matter issued by the Käthe Kollwitz Sammlung der Kreissparkasse Köln; and a 1990 calendar issued by the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum Berlin.

The photographs are four portraits of Käthe Kollwitz, including one by Hugo Erfurth, one by Lotte Jacobi, and two possibly by Alma Lápere. All four are vintage gelatin silver prints.

Arrangement

Arranged in four groups: posters, facsimile reproductions, printed matter, and photographs.

Posters, 1967-1993

Physical Description: 18 items

box 79, folder 1-4

Small posters, 1972-1977, 1993

Physical Description: 4 items

flatfile 1**

Large posters, 1967-1991, undated

Physical Description: 14 items

flatfile 2**

Facsimile reproductions, [not before 1985]

Physical Description: 7 items

box 79, folder 5-7

Illustrated matter, 1938, 1989, undated

Physical Description: 7 items

Portrait photos of Käthe Kollwitz 1925-1929, undated

Physical Description: 4 photographs

By Alma Lápere,

Physical Description: 2 photographs

box 80, folder 1

not before 1920

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Lápere, Alma

Creator: Kalm, Ernestine

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Contents

Technique: toned gelatin silver print. Dimensions: image 21 x 17 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ernestine Kalm. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in pencil photo Lepère Berlin; inscribed in pencil "Käthe Kollwitz Malerin"; inscribed in pencil "Gift of Ernestine Kalm 4/90." Lugt: 4395.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945

box 80, folder 2

not before 1920

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Muhlstock, Saul , -1999

Creator: Lápere, Alma

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Contents

Technique: matte gelatin silver print. Dimensions: image 20.7 x 16.7 cm, sheet 23.3 x 19.3 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Saul Muhlstock collection, Montreal. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; inscribed in pencil Gift of S. Muhlstock 3/25/87. Lugt: 4396. Mat inscription: inscribed in pencil "Alma Lápere, Berlin / Gift of S. Muhlstock"; label of the firm Art Services, Inc. in Los Angeles is affixed to the mat.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945

box 80, folder 3

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Erfurth, Hugo, 1874-1948

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Contents

Technique: gelatin silver print. Dimensions: image 22.9 x 16.7 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Hugo Erfurth, Cologne. Verso: three wet stamps of Hugo Erfurth, including one with a 1946 copyright statement; inscribed in pencil "Druck f. Reproduktion / Vaters liebste Aufnahme /der K. K./ Originalnegativ verloren." Mat inscription: inscribed in pencil "GK 17."

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945

box 80, folder 4

By Lotte Jacobi, 1929, printed later

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobi, Lotte, 1896-1990

Physical Description: 1 photograph

Scope and Contents

Technique: gelatin silver print on Agfa paper. Dimensions: image 23.4 x 17.4 cm, sheet 35.4 x 27.7 cm. Signatures: signed in pencil by Lotte Jacobi in lower right below the image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: signed in pencil by Lotte Jacobi; inscribed in pencil "mG28ILRR / BG27c"; number 2 inscribed in pencil in the lower right of sheet.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Kollwitz, Käthe, 1867-1945

Letters sent, Series I.E. 1898-1943

Physical Description: 0.42 Linear Feet(1 box)

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by recipient surname.

Scope and Contents

Present are thirty letters and postcards sent by Käthe Kollwitz to various recipients between 1898 and 1943. The lettters range from personal notes to friends to more formal responses to collectors asking to acquire her artwork. Six letters to the art historian Johannes Sievers allow glimpses into Kollwitz's involvement in the process of writing the catalogue raisonné of her graphic works. In a letter from 1908 to an unidentified recipient, Kollwitz assigns titles to various sheets from the cycle Peasants' War ( Bauernkrieg).

Preserved with the letters are transcripts, English translations, or clippings from sales catalogs related to the letters, as originally included by the collector.

box 78, folder 1

Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung 1909 March 30

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 5 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to the editor of Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung. Kollwitz criticizes the artistic quality of illustrations in the Berliner Illustrierte Zeitung in comparison with those in the magazine Simplicissimus. Letter, two transcripts, a note, and printed matter.

box 78, folder 2

Cordel, Robert 1937 August 19

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 4 items

Scope and Contents

Letter regarding Kollwitz's ancestry. Letter, envelope, and transcript with English translation.

Cordel, Senta 1932

Physical Description: 7 items

box 78, folder 3

1932 January 10

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 4 items

Scope and Contents

Kollwitz responds to an invitation to a social engagement. Letter, two envelopes, and transcript with English translation.

box 78, folder 4

1932 February 16

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Kollwitz responds to an invitation to a social engagement. Letter, transcript, and English translation.

Diepolder, Dr. 1943

Physical Description: 3 items

box 78, folder 5

1943 July 11

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Personal letter to Dr. Diepolder in Gräfelfing near Munich. Letter and envelope.

box 78, folder 6

1943 December 26

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Personal postcard.

box 78, folder 7

Dörfler, Frikomar 1922 December 31 and undated

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 5 items

Scope and Contents

A postcard and an undated letter to the collector Frikomar Dörfler in Kötschenbroda. Kollwitz mentions the print Wärmehallen [ HeatedShelter] and the cycle Krieg [ War]. Postcard, letter, transcript and translation.

box 78, folder 8

Dorulse [?], 1923 November 10

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to a collector regarding selling a sheet from the cycle Krieg [ War]. Letter with transcript and English translation.

box 78, folder 9

Herberger, Marra 1921 April 30

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Personal letter. Postcard with transcript and English translation.

box 78, folder 10

Huch, Marie 1907 March 11

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Postcard to the mother of the German author Friedrich Huch (1873-1913). With transcript and typed excerpt from Kollwitz diaries.

box 78, folder 11

Jungnickel, Max 1918 November 8

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

A thank you note to the author Max Jungnickel for sending a copy of his book Die Mütter.

box 78, folder 12

Kaemmerer, Ludwig 1923 November 19

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to the author of the book Kaethe Kollwitz Griffelkunst und Weltanschauung. Kollwitz comments on the theme of motherhood in her art and writes about her occupation with the theme of hunger as a response to famine in post World War I Germany. She also mentions the cycle Krieg [ War]. Letter with English translation.

box 78, folder 13

Kern, Helga 1927 Dezember 20

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Letter to the editor of the publication Führende Frauen Europas. One letter, typescript, carbon copy.

box 78, folder 14

Müller, 1925 Juni 17

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to an art teacher looking for examples of Kollwitz's artworks to show to her female students. Kollwitz stresses the importance of artistic perfection and recommends specific artworks as examples of her oeuvre. Letter (two leaves), transcript, and English translation.

box 78, folder 15

Siegmund-Schultze, Friedrich 1920 April 24 and October 15

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Two postcards and transcript. Kollwitz responds to the offer of a teaching position at the Art Academy in Berlin.

box 78, folder 16

Sievers, Herma 1916 June 20

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Personal letter to the wife of the art historian Johannes Sievers. Letter, envelope, and English translation.

Sievers, Johannes circa 1910-1918

Physical Description: 14 items

box 78, folder 17

ca. 1910

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

A card to the art historian Johannes Sievers concerning the cycle Peasants' War [ Bauernkrieg]. Card, printed matter with transcript, and English translation.

box 78, folder 18

1911 May 4

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to the art historian Johannes Sievers regarding his work on Kollwitz's catalogue raisonné. With a mention of Emil Richter. Two cards and translations.

box 78, folder 19

1916 July 2

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to the art historian Johannes Sievers. Kollwitz confirms sending to Sievers various impressions of a lithograph. Letter and English translation.

box 78, folder 20

1917 July 26

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Personal Feldpost letter to the art historian Johannes Sievers during his military deployment. Letter, envelope, and English translation.

box 78, folder 21

[1918] May 23

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to the art historian Johannes Sievers. Kollwitz writes about her election to the Art Academy in Berlin. Letter and English translation.

box 78, folder 22

1918 December 21

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Letter to the art historian Johannes Sievers. Kollwitz mentions drawings of children commissioned by [?] von Hahn.

box 78, folder 23

Singer, Hans 1911 June 7

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

A thank you note for acquiring her artwork. Letter and envelope.

box 78, folder 24

Stern, Nora 1939 May 28

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Personal letter dated Pentecost 1939.

box 78, folder 25

Sussmann, Dr. 1898 July 9

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Letter, envelope, and transcript.

Wulf, [?] 1941

Physical Description: 6 items

Scope and Contents

Two letters from Käthe Kollwitz to [?] Wulf regarding her drawing of Ernst Barlach, which she made posthumously at the artist's funeral. Included are four photographs of Barlach from 1938, taken possibly by Wulf, showing the ailing artist before he passed away.

box 78, folder 26

1941 October 19

Physical Description: 3 items

box 78, folder 27

1941 November 29

Physical Description: 3 items

Unidentified 1908, 1927-1929

Physical Description: 6 items

box 78, folder 28

Herr Professor 1908 February 25

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to an unidentified recipient addressed as Herr Professor. The letter concerns the cycle Peasants' War [ Bauernkrieg]. Kollwitz proposes the title for the cycle and assigns titles to the individual sheets. Letter and English translation.

box 78, folder 29

Junger Mann 1927 December 23

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 3 items

Scope and Contents

Letter to an aspiring young artist. Letter, photocopy, and English translation.

box 78, folder 30

Herr Professor 1929 March 10

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

With a mention of the art historian Max Deri. One letter.

Other artists, Series II. 1770s-2007, undated

Physical Description: 143.16 Linear Feet(63 boxes, 4 flat file folders)

Arrangement

Divided into six subseries: Drawings and paintings; Prints; Portfolios of prints; Posters and illustrated matter; Letters sent and other papers; and Artworks by non-European artists.

Scope and Content

Series II includes approximately 380 items: 130 drawings, circa 140 prints, 35 print portfolios; printed matter; and letters sent. The drawings and prints are by predominantly German artists from the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries, whose work exemplifies the artistic directions of this period, such as realism or naturalism, impressionism, symbolism, and expressionism.

Like Käthe Kollwitz, several of the artists were members of the modernist movement the Berlin Secession, including Ernst Barlach, Max Klinger, Lovis Corinth, Emil Nolde, or Karl Schmidt-Rottluff. Most extensively represented are Lovis Corinth, Otto Greiner, Max Klinger, Wilhelm Leibl, Ludwig Meidner, Max Pechstein, Franz Skarbina, Max Slevogt, and Karl Stauffer-Bern. Also present are several or single works by Emma Bormann, Lyonel Feininger, Walter Grammatté, George Grosz, Peter Halm, Karl Jakob Hirsch, Arthur Kampf, Melchior Lechter, Wilhelm Leibl, Friedrich von Liphart, Hans Meid, Wilhelm Morgner, Rolf Nesch, Emil Orlik, Bernhard Pankok, Jules Pascin, Ilya Repin, Christian Rohlfs, Rudolf Schlichter, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, Franz von Stuck, Hans Thoma, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Albert Welti, and Heinrich Zille. Also included are works by artists from the late eighteenth and pre-modernist nineteenth century, including Daniel Chodowiecki, Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder, and Alfred Rethel.

Series II.A. Drawings includes 130 drawings and watercolors from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The majority of the artists are German; with exception of the Swiss artists Karl Stauffer-Bern and Théophile Alexandre Steinlen; the French artist Jean-Baptiste Édouard Detaille; Jules Pascin, who came from a Sephardic Jewish family in Bulgaria; and the Russian painter Ilya Repin. Also included are two drawings by the 18th century painter and printmaker of Polish and German descent Daniel Chodowiecki. Three drawings are without established attribution. Together, twenty-eight artists are represented.

Series II.B. Prints includes 140 prints by artists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. There are also prints by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder and Alfred Rethel, both German artists from the period of romanticism from the first half of the 19th century. The majority of the artists are German; with exception of Emma Bormann, who was Austrian; the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; the German-born Norwegian artist Rolf Nesch, and the Swiss artists Karl Stauffer-Bern, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, and Albert Welti. Together, twenty-five artists are represented.

The thirty-five portfolios in Series II.C. Portfolios of prints exemplify commercial print publishing in Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Exemplary of an artist's involvement in the selection of plates and graphic design are seventeen portfolios of prints by Max Slevogt, issued by Bruno Cassirer in Berlin; or seven portfolios with cycles of prints by Max Klinger. The alphabet book with woodcuts by Conrad Felixmüller, designed by the artist together with his wife Londa, documents self-publishing efforts during the economic distress in Weimar Germany. Some portfolios represent various reproductive and experimental printing techniques. All of the portfolios in this subseries are also cataloged separately and can be searched by title in the Getty Research Library's online catalog.

Series II.D. includes handwritten letters sent by the artists Arnold Böcklin, Lovis Corinth, George Grosz, Max Klinger, Max Pechstein, and Karl Stauffer-Bern; the Socialist politician and father of Karl Liebknecht, Wilhelm Liebknecht; the German author Theodor Plievier; the printer and publisher of prints by Käthe Kollwitz Emil Richter; and the French author Romain Rolland.

Series II.E. comprises posters and art reproductions received with the collection.

The last Series II.F. was added for five artworks by non-European artists who are not associated with the artistic styles in Germany of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: Eduardo Kingman, Leopoldo Méndez, Sarah Sears, Louis Muhlstock, and Merian D. Williams. Also included with this group is a lithograph previously in the collection of Helmut Goedeckemeyer which is unsigned but attributed to Gerhart Kraag (1909-1971). The lithograph is filed with this series until the attribution is confirmed.

The titles of untitled artworks are supplied from reference sources or devised, and are enclosed in square blackets. The source of title is provided in an explanatory note for each artwork.

Drawings and paintings, Series II.A. 1770s-1981, undated

Physical Description: 26.91 Linear Feet(12 boxes, 1 flat file folder)

Arrangement

The artworks are arranged in the order of each artist's catalogue raisonné, with unrecorded artworks listed chronologically or alphabetically at the end, if undated. The artworks are arranged chronologically for artists whose artworks are not recorded in a catalogue raisonné.

Scope and Contents

Included are 130 drawings and paintings predominantly by German artists from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. An exception are drawings by the eighteen century painter and printmaker of Polish and German descent Daniel Chodowiecki.

Among other artists are the Swiss painter, etcher and sculptor Karl Stauffer-Bern; the French academic painter Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille; the Bulgarian-born expressionist painter Jules Pascin; the German-American expressionist painter Lyonel Feininger; and the Russian realist painter and renowned Russian artist of the nineteenth century, Ilya Yefimovich Repin. There are three drawings by unidentified artists listed at the end of the subseries.

Most extensively represented, with twelve drawings and numerous sketches, is the German symbolist artist Otto Greiner (1869-1916). None of Greiner's drawings are listed in the 1912 catalog Zeichnungen von Otto Greiner by Hans W. Singer. Compiled two years before Greiner's death, Singer's work remains the only published catalog of drawings by Greiner. Also present are two bound sketchbooks and nine loose leaves with sketches on recto and verso. Together with twelve lithographs by Greiner in Series II.B., the collection of prints and drawings by Greiner assembled by Dr. Richard A. Simms constitutes a significant resource for the study of Greiner's artistic output an the art of German symbolism.

The expressionist printmaker, sculptor, and writer Ernst Barlach (1870-1938) is represented with five drawings, of which three are not listed in the 1958 catalogue raisonné of Barlach's drawings by Friedrich Schult. One of these drawings is the cover design for the second illustrated edition of Barlach's drama Der arme Vetter, (1919).

Another example of a rare and unpublished drawing is the oval portrait in red chalk by Daniel Chodowiecki (1726-1801) of his young daughter and future painter and member of the Prussian Academy of Arts, Suzette Henry. The drawing is not included in the only known catalog of Chodowiecki's drawings by Wolfgang von Oettingen Daniel Chodowiecki's Handzeichnungen, (19070. There is a study of a male nude, also in red chalk, on the verso of the portrait.

The French academic painter Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille (1848-1912) is represented with a small watercolor depicting an aide-de-camp, a military officer, horseback riding. The watercolor is signed by the artist and undated.

The German-American expressionist artist Lyonel Feininger (1871-1956) is represented with an unpublished fjord landscape in watercolor. Dated 1951, it represents Feininger's late work.

The German expressionst painter Walter Gramatté (1897-1929) is represented with four watercolors, of which two are listed in the 1981 catalog of the Eckhardt-Gramatté Estate.

Included are five works by the German artist George Grosz (1893-1959): an early work, the 1916 chalk drawing of a female nude, portrait of Louise Portmann; a 1931 watercolor depicting a couple sitting at a table in a café, with a pen and ink drawing of a female nude on the verso; and two watercolors from 1939 titled Cape Cod and Sand Dunes in Cape Cod. These two works were executed shortly after Grosz became a naturalized citizen in the United States. Brightly colored, the watercolors are representative of the artist's retreat from social engagement and political commitment during the time of the Weimar Republic, after leaving Germany in 1933. The collection also includes a letter by George Grosz, written in 1939, in which the artist states his departure from caricature as a form of political and social engagement in art (see letter filed in box 78, folder 32).

Included is a 1917 pencil drawing of the Baroque organ at the Ettal Monastery in Bavaria by the German etcher Peter Halm (1854-1923). A similar drawing is held in the collection of the Graphische Sammlung des Mittelrheinischen Landesmuseums in Mainz, Germany. Halm was professor of graphic arts at the Art Academy in Munich and a close friend of the Swiss etcher, painter, and sculptor Karl-Stauffer Bern. His drawing in the Simms collection has not been published.

Arthur Kampf (1864-1950) was a German history painter known for the monumental mural Fichte's Address to the German Nation (1913-1914) at the Humboldt University in Berlin. His work is represented with three early drawings executed in ink pen and pencil, and an early watercolor. The artworks are from the late nineteenth century, and only one is dated by the artist. Depicted are genre scenes and sketches of human figures, including a soldier. The watercolor depicts gypsies dancing in front of a tent. The drawings are not listed in Hans W. Singer's 1912 catalog Zeichnungen von Arthur Kampf.

The German painter, sculptor, printmaker, and writer Max Klinger (1857-1920), is represented with seven drawings and sketches, of which four are dated from 1877 to 1894 and three are undated works. The drawings are not listed in Hans W. Singer's 1912 catalog Zeichnungen von Max Klinger. Included is a preparatory drawing for sheet 3 from the cycle Four Landscapes; a drawing depicting a faun watching two bathing women; a drawing in ink and watercolor inscribed by Klinger "Das Gesicht"; sketches of a male and a female nude; and portraits of two women from Klinger's life: the Austrian writer and partner Elsa Asenijeff and the artist's wife Gertrude Bock.

The German painter, illustrator and designer, Melchior Lechter (1865-1937), is represented by a 1921 multicolored pastel drawing Wirtshausgarten im Sommer [ Tavern Garden in the Summer], rendered in vibrant impressionist style .

A portrait in pen, brush and ink of the French painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes is a rare artwork by Friedrich von Liphart (1847–1932), who was a painter, a noted art expert and art collector from a noble Baltic German family from what is now Tartu in Estonia. After living for a time in Florence, Liphart moved to France and then to Russia, where he became a curator at the Hermitage Museum. The portrait of Puvis de Chavannes was executed in 1881 during Liphart's stay in France. There is no scholarly publication on Liphart currently known to the scholarly community.

The German sculptor and painter Wilhelm Loth (1920-1993) is represented with one of his drawings of a female nude shown in the shape of a triangle. The drawing is signed and dated by the artist 1980.

The German expressionist painter and printmaker Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) is represented by nine drawings, from which seven were previously part of the Ernest and Lilly Jacobson collection in Los Angeles and were shown in 1973 in the exhibition Prints, Drawings and Watercolors of Ludwig Meidner, the Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection, held at the University of Southern California Art Galleries. The other two drawings are Street at Night II from 1913 and Self-Portrait with Tongue Sticking Out from 1914. Six of the drawings bear the wet stamp and inventory number of the artist's estate.

A watercolor depicting a crucifixion is by the German expressionist artist and graphic designer Wilhelm Morgner (1891-1917), who served in the First World War and was killed in action. It is one of several works on Christ's Passion created by Morgner between 1914 and 1915. The artwork bears the number 1116 of the inventory of Morgner's artworks owned by Georg Tappert, who also was a German expressionist painter and Morgner's art teacher. In the early 1920s Tappert lost the legal rights to Morgner's estate to Morgner's family, who then sold his estate to the Kunstsammlung der Stadt Soest. The catalogue raisonné of Morgner's oeuvre in the collection of the Kunstsammlung der Stadt Soest includes a watercolor titled Kreuzigung from 1914 with Tappert inventory number 1117. An artwork with Tappert inventory number 1116 is not listed in the catalogue raisonné of Morgner's estate. Therefore, the watercolor from the Simms collection fills a gap not only in the catalogue raisonné of Morgner's estate, but also in the inventory of Morgner's oeuvre known to be previously owned by Georg Tappert.

The expressionist painter and printmaker Max Pechstein (1881-1955) is represented with a small pencil, pen, and ink drawing from 1911 depicting figures sitting at a table. The German-American artist and art historian affiliated with the European Bauhaus and Dadaist movements, Kate Steinitz, acquired the drawing in the same year from the J. B. Neumann print gallery in Berlin. The drawing is one of several, in which Pechstein focused on capturing everyday people in their unassuming daily roles, most likely as short-hand records to be used for later works.

The German painter, printmaker, and sculptor Bernhard Pankok (1872-1943) is represented with an early self-portrait from 1893, executed in pencil and black ink.

The artist Jules Pascin (1885-1930) came from a Sephardic Jewish family in Bulgaria. His real name was Julius Mordecai Pincas. Pascin spent most of his life in Vienna, Munich, Paris and the United States, where he became an American citizen. In Paris he was known as the "Prince of Montparnasse." Pascin's most frequent subject was women, depicted in casual poses, usually nude. The Simms collection includes an undated ink pen drawing Ménage à trois, depicting three nude or partly dressed young women.

The Russian realist painter Ilya Repin (1844-1930), is represented by a black chalk drawing Young Russian Peasant Standing, dated 1879 by the artist. The drawing is likely a study for the painting Provody novobrantsa [ Seeing off a Recruit] from the same year.

Rudolf Schlichter (1890-1955), a German artist associated with Dada and New Objectivity, is represented by a watercolor portrait of a maid, from 1929; and a 1932 pencil drawing of a woman, known as Mrs. K.

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff (1884-1976), one of the founders of the artist group Die Brücke and leading proponent of German expressionism, is represented with a large watercolor titled Blooming Cactuses, from 1925. The painting is characteristic of Schmidt-Rottluff's turn towards a new style of colorful and flat shapes with gentle outlines, which evolved by the mid-1920s.

The German impressionist painter, draftsman, etcher, and illustrator Franz Skarbina (1849-1910), is represented by three watercolors and four charcoal drawings dating from 1891 to 1909. Only one of the drawings, the watercolor Roofs of Old Berlin, is included in the catalog of the comprehensive exhibition of Skarbina's drawings and paintings held in 1995 at the Bröhan-Museum in Berlin. Three of the artworks are listed in the catalog of the first retrospective exhibition of Skarbina's oeuvre, held at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Berlin in 1910, shortly after Skarbina's death. Considering that many of Skarbina's artworks perished and that the artist's studio and papers were destroyed in the Second World War, these watercolors and drawings contribute several unpublished works.

The prolific German impressionist painter and illustrator Max Slevogt (1868-1932), is represented by two watercolors and three pen and ink drawings dating from 1895 to 1919. None of the artworks were included in the retrospective exhibition Max Slevogt Gemälde Aquarelle Zeichnungen, held in 1992 at the Saarland-Museum in Saarbrücken, and other venues.

The Swiss painter, etcher, and sculptor, Karl Stauffer-Bern (1857-1891), is represented by a little known 1883 drawing View of Castle of Glienicke in black chalk and wash. The Glienicke castle is a neoclassical structure, designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, located on the lake Wannsee between Berlin and Potsdam. The draftsmanship of Stauffer-Bern shows the influence of Adolf von Menzel.

The Swiss-born French Art Nouveau painter and printmaker, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923), is represented by two undated charcoal drawings, both from the late nineteenth century: the genre scene The Brawl, and a presumed portrait of the French poet Paul Verlaine (1844-1896).

Franz von Stuck (1863-1928), German symbolist painter, sculptor, engraver and architect is represented by an ink pen drawing, which bears the artist's handwritten dedication to the German sculptor Wilhelm von Rümann (1850-1906), who like von Stuck was based in Munich. The drawing depicts a mythological scene showing Pan observing a centaur couple and a Triton with Nereid.

The German painter, Hans Thoma (1839-1924), is represented by two little-known watercolors, both undated, one depicting a man sitting in a landscape, and a seascape and shore. Both works are monogrammed by the artist in ink and signed.

Heinrich Zille (1858-1929) was a popular German illustrator and photographer known for satirical and humorous drawings from the miliueu of working-class Berlin. The Simms collection includes two pencil drawings by Zille, both undated, titled Mother and Children with the Woodman's Wife and Vagabond Artist.

Filed at the end of the subseries are three artworks without established attribution. A relatively large charcoal drawing depicting a centaur seizing a fawn; a small sheet with two sketches in pen and ink, one of a man in bed and one of a man with a spear; and a watercolor depicting the temple of Vesta in Rome, likely from 1906.

Occasionally mentioned mat description relates to the mat in which the artwork was received by the repository.

Ernst Barlach, 1907-1937

Arrangement

Arranged in the order of the catalogues raisonné by Friedrich Schult: Ernst Barlach Werkkatalog der Zeichnungen, cited as Schult III; Ernst Barlach das plastische Werk, cited as Schult I; Ernst Barlach das graphische Werk, cited as Schult II. (Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell, 1st edition, 1958).

box 33

[ Verhüllte Bettlerin], 1138 (Schult III) [1915 or 1916]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Gruenthal, Lola

Creator: Gruenthal, Max, -1962

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on stiff paper with ribbed surface and threeserrated edges. Dimensions: sheet 39 x 31.5 cm. Signatures: signed by Ernst Barlach in charcoal in lower left. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Lola and Max Gruenthal collection, New York. References: Schult III, 1138. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in pencil number 671 within circle. Lugt: 4395. Related work: scuplture Verhüllte Bettlerin, Schult I, 214; sculpture Barmherzigkeit, Schult I, 215; sculpture Tod und Leben, Schult I, 186; sculpture Grablegung (Totenklage), Schult I, 187. Note: title from Schult.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 33

[ Sitzender mit Laterne, nach rechts gekehrt] , [1917?]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on stiff white paper. Dimensions: sheet 16.7 x 17 cm. Signatures: signed by Barlach in pencil in lower right and inscribed in brown ink in lower margin .... vor meinen Augen ist die Latüchte/heller als der Sirius, die Traulampe/überscheint ihn (Der arme Vetter). Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in Schult. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll.Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; collector's wet stamp letter R or P within circle, with inscription in pencil 23. Feb. 1983; inscribed in pencil by unknown hand Ernst Barlach (1870-1938)/Hans Iver/Kohlezeichnung, 1917, sign./Illustration zu "Der arme Vetter"; inscribed in pencil by the same unknown hand along the lower margin Die zugehörige Textstelle des Dramas von Barlach eigen-/händig zitiert (am Unterrand, schwarz braune Tinte, Feder):/.... vor meinen Augen ist die Latüchte/heller als der Sirius, die Traulampe/überscheint ihn (Der arme Vetter). Lugt: 4395; collector's stamp not in Lugt. Note: cover design for Barlachs's drama Der arme Vetter, the second illustrated edition published in 1919 by Paul Cassirer in Berlin. Related works: drawings Sitzender mit Laterne, nach rechts gekehrt, Schult III 1195, 1196; lithograph Der arme Vetter, Haupttitel des Texbandes, Schult I, 54.02, Schult II, 114; drawing Das Licht im Dunkel, Galerie Rosenbach, Zwischen Tradition und Moderne, catalog 44, 80. Note: title from Schult.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 33

[ Hornbläser] , [1935?]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: India ink on paper, cropping lines in pencil in the left margin; mounted on stiff white paper. Dimensions: sheet 24 x 22.5 cm, mount 26 x 23.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in Schult. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in pencil Barlach's Pinsel-Umzeichnung des Umschlags für Einführung. Lugt: 4395. Note: cover design for the 1935 publication Ernst Barlach Zeichnungen, with introductory text by Paul Fechter, (Munich: R. Piper, 1935). Related work: drawing Verzweiflung und Erlösung, Schult I, 792. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 33

[ Frierende Alte], [1937]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on heavy sketchbook paper. Dimensions: sheet 23 x 30 cm. Signatures: signed by Barlach in charcoal in lower left. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in Schult. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; number 137 inscribed in pencil and traces of other erased numbers still visible. Related work: sculptures Frierende Alte, Schult I, 479, 480, 481. Note: studies for sculptures of the same title. Lugt: 4395. Note: title from Schult.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Daniel Chodowiecki, [1770s]

Scope and Contents

With references to the catalog of Chodowiecki's drawings by Wolfgang von Oettingen Daniel Chodowieckis Handzeichnungen (Berlin: Julius Bard, 1907).

box 33

Recto: [ Medallion Portrait of Susanne (Suzette) Chodowiecka, the Daughter of the Artist], [1770s]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Du Bois-Reymond, Clemens

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: red chalk drawing on laid paper with armorial and proprietary watermarks. Dimensions: image 27.5 x 24 cm, sheet 41.5 x 30.5 cm. Signatures: signed in red chalk D. Chodowiecki f. in the lower right corner of image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Claude Du Bois-Reymond, Zurich. References: not in Oettingen. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Verso: red chalk drawing of a male nude. Lugt: 4396. Note: Suzette Henry, born Chodowiecka, was a German painter and member of the Prussian Academy of Arts. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 18th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 18th century

Henry, Suzette, 1763-1819

box 33

Verso: [ Male Nude, Three Quarter View From Behind] , [1770s]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Du Bois-Reymond, Clemens

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: red chalk drawing on laid paper with armorial and proprietary watermarks. Dimensions: sheet 41.5 x 30.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Du Bois-Reymond, Zurich. References: not in Oettingen. Recto: oval portrait of the artist's daughter in red chalk. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 18th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 18th century

Jean-Baptiste-Édouard Detaille, late 19th century-1981

Scope and Contents

With a reference to the catalog of the exhibition "Call to Arms," Édouard Detaille and his Contemporaries, Selections from the Forbes Magazine Collection, held from January 18-March 29, 1981 at the Tampa Museum.

[ Aide-de-Camp], late 19th century-1981

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Forbes Magazine Collection

Creator: Feingarten Galleries

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil and watercolor on stiff woven paper. Dimensions: sheet 20 x 16 cm. Signatures: signed in ink E. Detaille in the lower right of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Forbes Magazine Collection, Tampa, Florida. References: Tampa Museum exhibition catalog, 1. Note: title from dealer's description (Feingarten Galleries). Note: preserved at the repository is part of a former frame with labels.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- France -- 19th century

box 33

Artwork, late 19th century

box 87

Part of frame with labels, 1981, undated

Lyonel Feininger, 1951

Scope and Contents

A similar view of the Pacific North West dated in 1949 was exhibited in 1951 at the York City Art Gallery. See: Feininger 40 Watercolors and Drawings (York: York City Art Gallery, 1951). See: York City Art Gallery exhibition catalog no. 38.

box 33

[ Pacific North West], 1951

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Felix Landau Gallery

Creator: Gutekunst & Klipstein

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen and watercolor on thin paper with "Riverside" watermark. Dimensions: sheet 14.3 x 21.5 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in black ink Feininger/1951 in the lower left of image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Felix Landau Gallery; Gutekunst & Klipstein. Related work: watercolor Pacific North West from 1949; exhibited in 1951 at the York City Art Gallery, exhibition catalog no. 38. Note: title devised. Note: portion of former mat with provenance information preserved.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- United States -- 20th century

Walter Gramatté, 1922-1925

Arrangement

Arranged in the order of the catalogue Walter Gramatté Bilder und Aquarelle, Paintings and Watercolors (Winnipeg, Canada: Estate S.C. Eckhardt-Gramatté, 1981); referred to as Eckhardt. The watercolor Self-Portrait in Barcelona is not in Eckhardt, but it is listed in the auction catalog Auction 16 / Villa Grisebach, Berlin, 24 November 1990, cat. no. 159.

box 33

[ Bildnis Sonia en face], A 123 (Eckhardt) 1922

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and ink pen over pencil outline on velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 50 x 36 cm. Signatures: signed and dated Gramatté/Paris 22 in ink in the right margin. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: Eckhardt A 123. Verso: collector's wet stamp RSA within circle; illegible circular wet stamp; inscribed in pencil by various hands Walter Gramatté Paris 1922; Walter Gramatté, Mädchen, 1922; F91-E19; and other markings and numbers inscribed in pencil or in blue and red crayon. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from Eckhardt.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 33

[ Weiblicher Rückenakt mit Ofen], A 164 (Eckhardt) [ca. 1920]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor on thin chamois parchment paper with oneserrated edge. Dimensions: sheet 26.8 x 19.7 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection. References: Eckhardt A 164. Verso: collector's wet stamp RSA within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from Eckhardt.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 81

[ Self-Portrait in Barcelona], 1924

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Reidemeister, Ludwig, 1900-1987

Creator: Schultz, Bernd (collector)

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor over pencil on yellowish paper with three serrated edges. Dimensions: sheet 48 x 37.5 cm. Signatures: signed and dated by the artist in pen and India ink Gramatté/Barcelona 1924. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ludwig Reidemeister collection, Berlin; Bernd Schulz collection, Berlin.References: not in Eckhardt; Auction 16 / Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 24 November 1990, cat. no. 159. Verso: number 1 inscribed in red crayon; number 43 inscribed in pencil; G. 2352 inscribed in pencil; number 172 inscribed in red crayon. Note: title devised. Note: backing board with Villa Grisebach label is preserved.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 33

[ A Vase of Eucalyptus and Mimosa], 1925

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Vallin, J.

Creator: C. G. Boerner (New York)

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and ink pen over pencil outline on stiff paper with three serrated edges. Dimensions: sheet 48.5 x 37.5 cm. Signatures: signed, dated and inscribed Gramatté/Barcelona 1925 in brown ink in the lower left corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; J. Vallin, Málaga. References: not in Eckhardt. Recto: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in pencil Walter Gramatté/Barcelona/(S. Gervario)/Cayol 5; illegible inscription in pencil. Lugt: 4395. Note: title from dealer's description (C. G. Boerner Inc, New York).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Otto Greiner, 1888-1899, undated

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically, with undated drawings listed at the end. Two bound sketchbooks and several mostly undated leaves from sketchbooks are also filed at the end.

Scope and Contents

Included are eleven drawings, two bound sketchbooks, and nine loose leaves from sketchbooks. A letter by Arthur Haferkorn with a mention of Greiner is filed with Series II.E. Letters and other papers, and shelved in box 85.

With occasional references to the catalog Zeichnungen von Otto Greiner by Hans W. Singer (Leipzig: Verlag von Baumgärtner's Buchhandlung, 1912); and the catalog of Greiner's prints Otto Greiners graphische Arbeiten by Julius Vogel (Dresden: Verlag von Ernst Arnold (Ludwig Gutbier), 1917).

box 34

[ Drei musizierende Knaben], 1888

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen and grey wash over pencil on stiff paper. Dimensions: sheet 12 x 16.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned; inscribed in black chalk by Otto "Greiner Musikknaben / Musikkarte" and dated in black ink "30.1.88." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge. References: not in Singer. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number 9 inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description.

See also: drawing Skizzenblatt mit drei musizierenden Knaben und zwei anderen Skizzen of Knaben and drawing [ Skizze tanzende Paare in Box 34.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

[ Skizzenblatt mit drei musizierenden Knaben und zwei anderen Skizzen of Knaben], 1888

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on stiff paper. Dimensions: 25.5 x 12.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned; dated and inscribed by Otto Greiner "24.1.88/Zur Karte." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin. References: not in Singer. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number 10 inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin).

See also: drawing Sketch of Three Boys Playing Music and drawing Sketch Dancing Couples in Box 34.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

[ Skizze tanzende Paare], circa 1888

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black pen with grey wash and red watercolor over pencil on stiff paper. Dimensions: 10.7 x 16 cm. Signatures: unsigned; illegible inscription by Otto Greiner in pencil. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge. References: not in Singer. Recto: two collector's wet stamps "RSA" within circle; number 11 inscribed in pencil; several pencil sketches of human figures by Greiner. Lugt: 4396. Note: German title from dealer's description (Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin).

See also: drawing Skizzenblatt mit drei musizierenden Knaben und zwei anderen Skizzen of Knaben and drawing [ Drei musizierende Knaben in Box 34.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

[ Sheet With Four Sketches of Foliage on a Trellis], 1888

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil, pen and black ink, grey brush on paper. Signatures: unsigned; dated in pencil 29.10.88. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in Singer. Related work: Vogel 26, plate IV (lithograph Gartenlaube). Note: preparatory sketches for the lithograph Gartenlaube from 1889. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

[ Obstbaum], 1889

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black pen with grey wash on cream-colored paper; mounted on stiff white paper. Dimensions: sheet 36.5 x 26 cm, mount 41.2 x 30.3 cm. Signatures: signed and dated by Greiner in ink O. Greiner/Juni 89. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in Singer. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Related work: Singer plate 1. Mat inscription: former mat inscribed in pencil "98/84"; "D520"; and two lines of dealer's description in English. Note: title from Singer, plate 1.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

[ Standing Male Nude From Rear and Re-Study], 1892

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Shepherd Gallery

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen and ink, wash and white highlights on heavy-weight wove paper. Signatures: signed and dated by Otto Greiner in ink in upper right of sheet "Dez. 92/O. Greiner." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Shepherd Gallery, New York. References: not in Singer. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Shepherd Gallery, New York).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

[ Crucified Thief, Study for Golgatha, and Study of an Arm with Hand], 1893

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Hirzel, Georg, 1867-1924

Creator: Shepherd Gallery

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black chalk with white heightening on tan wove paper with a "Dans Les Annonay" watermark. Dimensions: sheet 33.3 x 49 cm. Signatures: initialled and dated by Otto Greiner in black chalk "[illegible] 93/Leipzig O. Gr." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Georg Hirzel collection, Leipzig; Shepherd Gallery, New York. References: not in Singer. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: preparatory drawing for the lithograph Golgatha, kleine Kreuzigung Christi, Vogel 59. Note: title from dealer's description (Shepherd Gallery, New York).

See also: lithograph Golgatha,Kleine Kreuzigung Christi in Box 23.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

[ Römischer Krieger mit Courtisane], 1899

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: red chalk over pencil, with highlights in white chalk, on light brown velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 41 x 39 cm. Signatures: initialled and dated by Otto Greiner in red chalk in the lower right corner of sheet "O. Gr. 5.99." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg, Heidelberg. References: not in Singer. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; illegible inscription in pencil; numbers 54 x 50 inscribed in pencil; another marking in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Note: preparatory drawing for the lithograph Golgatha, Grosse Kreuzigung Christi, Vogel 78. Related work: preparatory drawing for the lithograph Studie zum Steindruck "Golgatha", Singer 34. Note: title devised.

See also: lithograph Golgatha, Grosse Kreuzigung Christi in Box 23.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

[ Rückblickender Satyr], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Müller, Werner Eberhard, -1967

Creator: Oppler, Ernst

Creator: Karl & Faber

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor on stiff paper. Dimensions: sheet 14.7 x 17.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Werner Eberhard Müller collection, Leipzig; Ernst Oppler collection, Berlin; Karl & Faber. References: not in Singer. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; collector's wet stamp in red ink "m m m" within circle; inscribed in ink "Ernst Oppler / W. E. Müller, Leipzig 1932"; previous owner's dedication inscribed in pencil, illegible; inscribed in pencil "Orig. Aquarelle v. Otto Greiner"; numbers 13767 and 34238/5 inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4395; 5075. Note: title from dealer's description (Karl & Faber).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

Recto and Verso: [ Skizzenblatt mit Studien zu Ikarus, einem Selbstbildnis und weiteren Figuren], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: red and black chalk and black ink pen on velin paper with "Carl Schüll" watermark. Dimensions: sheet 47.2 x 32.9 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge. References: not in Singer. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Gerda Bassenge).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Sketchbooks and loose leaves from sketchbooks, 1889, undated

Scope and Contents

Included are two sketchbooks and nine loose leaves with sketches.

box 82, folder 1

[ Portrait of a Middle-Aged Woman with Hair Tied Back], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on laid paper with "E.T." watermark. Dimensions: sheet 30 x 19.5 cm. Signatures: initialled in charcoal in the lower right of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: charcoal sketch of a man sitting in a chair, seen from behind and from the side. Note: enclosure numbered in pencil 5607. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 82, folder 2

Recto: [ Sketch of a Male Nude with Raised Arms]; Verso: [ Several Sketches of a Male Nude and Outline of a Female Head], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: red chalk on recto and pencil on verso, on greenish woven paper; with a stripe of white paper attached along the left margin of recto. Dimensions: sheet 30 x 23.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Note: enclosure numbered in pencil 5732 and 231. Note: titles devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 82, folder 3

Recto: [ Sketch of a Male Nude's Thigh, Leg, and Lower Back]; Verso: [ Several Sketches of Floral Motifs], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: red chalk on recto and pencil on verso, on greenish woven paper; with a stripe of white paper attached along the left margin of recto. Dimensions: sheet 30 x 23.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Note: enclosure numbered in pencil 5611. Note: titles devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 82, folder 4

Recto: [ Crouching Male Nude]; Verso: [ Sketch of a Sitting Male Nude and Several Sketches of Arms and Hands], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal with highlights in white chalk on recto and black ink pen and pencil on verso, on greenish woven paper; with a stripe of white paper attached along the left margin of recto. Dimensions: sheet 30 x 23.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Note: titles devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 82, folder 5

Recto: [ Sitting Man, Seen from Behind]; Verso: [ Sketch of a Male Head Wearing a Hat, Several Sketches of a Male Face and One Unidentified Motif], 1889

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on recto and pencil with black ink pen on verso, on yellowish woven paper. Dimensions: 25.5 x 19 cm. Signatures: signed by Otto Greiner in pencil in the lower right of recto. Provenance:Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: number 32 inscribed in pencil in the lower left of sheet. Verso: dated in pencil 8. XI. 89; number 31 inscribed in pencil. Note: titles devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 82, folder 6

[ Sitting Man Wearing a Hat, Seen from the Side], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on yellowish woven paper. Dimensions: sheet 25.5 x 19.2 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: two small sketches in red chalk, a female face and a human figure with raised arms. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 82, folder 7

Recto: [ Sketches of Flowers and Foliage]; Verso: [ Sketch of a Bald Male Head], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Grieb, E. W.

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal highlighted with white chalk on recto and charcoal highlighted with yellow chalk on verso, on greenish-grey paper with an illegible watermark. Dimensions: 46 x 30.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; E. W. Grieb collection. Recto: a small paper label pasted in the lower right corner, inscribed in black ink number 55, stamped with collector's wet stamp three nested rhombi in red ink; and inscribed in pencil "Ab [?]/6104/11228." Verso: number 394 inscribed in pencil; an illegible mark and numbers 55/1122 inscribed in pencil. Lugt: Grieb stamp not in Lugt. Note: enclosure numbered in pencil 5609. Note: titles devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 82, folder 8

Recto: [ Sketch of a Bush Near a Fence]; Verso: [ Sketch of Flowers], 1889

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal and watercolor on recto and charcoal and pencil on verso, on yellowish woven paper. Dimensions: sheet 24 x 30.5 cm. Signatures: initialled and dated in charcoal by Otto Greiner on recto "O.G. 19. 7. 89." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: number 41 inscribed in pencil in the lower left of recto. Note: enclosure numbered in pencil 5612. Note: titles devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 82, folder 9

Recto: [ Sketch of a Man with a Headdress]; Verso: [ Sketch of Two Arms in Sleeves], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen on recto and pecil on verso, on yellowish woven paper. Dimensions: sheet 31 x 24.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Note: enclosurenumbered in pencil 5610. Note: titles devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Sketchbooks, 1889

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 2 items

Scope and Contents

Both sketchbooks are bound in cloth, dated and numbered as 1 and 2 inside the front covers. Sketchbook 1 is also signed and inscribed by Otto Greiner inside the front cover and the front fly-leaf. Sketchbook 1 has leaves numbered on rectos as 1, 15, 27, 29, 33, 35, 43, 45, 47, 51, 55, 59; and the verso of leaf 59 numbered 60. Sketchbook 2 has ten unnumbered leaves. The drawings in both sketchbooks are executed in pencil, red chalk, charcoal, or black ink pen on rectos and versos and the endpapers. There is a black ink drawing of a male head on the cover of sketchbook 1. The drawings are studies of foliage and plants; studies of various parts of the human body and anatomical studies of the human skeletton; sketches of human figures and horses, including a horse in harnes; and sketches of various details. Sketchbook 1 includes a study for the figure of a fleeing faun for the 1892 lithograph Auf der Flucht, (Vogel, 41).

See also: drawing Study for Fleeing Fauns [ Studie zu Fliehende Faune] in Box 34.

See also: pen lithograph Fleeing Fauns [ Fliehende Faune] in Box 23.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Sketchbooks -- Germany -- 19th century

box 83

Sketchbook 1,

Sketchbook 1, 1889

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Physical Description: 1 item

box 84

Sketchbook 2,

Sketchbook 2, 1889

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Physical Description: 1 item

George Grosz, 1916-1939

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents

With a reference to the catalog of the exhibition George Grosz, 1893-1959, held in 1963 at the Arts Council Gallery, London.

box 34

[ Sitzender weiblicher Akt] or [ Louise Portmann], 1916

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Hauswedell & Nolte

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black chalk and carpenter's pencil on wove paper. Dimensions: sheet 37.7 x 29.1 cm. Signatures: signed by George Grosz in brown ink in the lower right corner of sheet; inscribed in pencil in the upper right corner of sheet "No. 16/Louise Portmann." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; sketch of a female head in black chalk; number 1 within a circle drawn twice; titled "Louise" in black chalk; inscribed in pencil "Aus Baden-Baden zurück/Nr. 1"; number 423 within circle inscribed in pencil; number 35 within circle inscribed in pencil; number 50 inscribed in pencil; number 118 within circle inscribed in pencil; "5 44 3" inscribed in black ink. Lugt: 4396. Note: both titles from dealer's description (Hauswedell & Nolte).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 34

Recto: [ At the Café], 1931

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Weil, Felix J. (Felix José), 1898-

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and reed pen on paper. Dimensions: sheet 45.3 x 61.3 cm. Signatures: signed by George Grosz in ink in the lower right of sheet; dedication in pencil in the lower left "meinen lieben Lix [?] / und Motte für die / neue Wohnung / Böff Grosz / 1931 Juni." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Felix J. Weil collection, California. References: Arts Council catalog, 51. Verso: drawing of a female nude. Note: title from Arts Council catalog.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 34

Verso: [ Female Nude], 1931?

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Weil, Felix J. (Felix José), 1898-

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen and orange ink on paper. Dimensions: sheet 45.3 x 61.3 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Felix J. Weil collection, California. Recto: inscribed in pencil "N20." Verso: watercolor and reed pen drawing At the Café. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 34

Cape Cod, 1939

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Cohn, Erich , -1972

Creator: Zimer, Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: gold, yellow, and blue watercolor on stiff paper. Dimensions: image 44 x 34.5, sheet 49.5 x 39.5 cm. Signatures: signed, titled, and dated by George Grosz in red ink in the lower right corner of image "Grosz/Cape Cod 1939." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Erich Cohn collection, New York; Dr. Zimer collection. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner. Lugt: 4395. Note: title inscribed by the artist.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- United States -- 20th century

box 34

[ Dünen am Cape Cod], 1939

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor on white stiff paper. Dimensions: 15 x 19.3 cm. Signatures: signed and dated "Grosz 39" in red ink in the lower right corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Note: title from on label on frame.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- United States -- 20th century

Peter Halm, 1917

Scope and Contents

With a reference to the exhibition catalog Peter Halm, Handzeichnungen, Radierungen, Dokumente (Mainz: Mittelrheinisches Landesmuseum, 1981).

box 34

[ Blick auf die barocke Orgel von Kloster Ettal], 1917

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Ratjen, Wolfgang, 1943-1997

Creator: Karl & Faber

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: carpenter's pencil on grayish-green velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 36.3 x 25.3 cm. Signatures: inscribed by Peter Halm in the lower left corner of sheet "Ettal 1917" and signed in the lower right corner of sheet "P. Halm." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Dr. Wolfgang Ratjen, Vaduz, Lichtenstein; Karl & Faber, Munich. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; inscribed in pencil 244017/0063. Lugt: 4396. Related work: drawing Kloster Ettal, Orgelempore in the collection of Graphische Sammlung des Mittelrheinischen Landesmuseums; see catalog Peter Halm, Handzeichnungen, Radierungen, Dokumente, 87. Note: title from dealer's description (Karl & Faber).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Arthur Kampf, 1890, undated

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents

The drawings are not listed in the catalog by Hans W. Singer Zeichnungen von Arthur Kampf (Leipzig: A. Schumann's Verlag, 1912).

box 35

[ Heimkehrender im Schein einer Laterne], 1890

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen with dark grey wash on beige paper, mounted on stiff white paper. Dimensions: sheet 16.2 x 8.1 cm, mount 23.5 x 14.2 cm. Signatures: initialled and dated by Arthur Kampf in black ink "A.K. 1890." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin. References: not in Singer. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number 7 within a square inscribed in pencil; number 169 within circle inscribed in brown crayon. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Gerda Bassenge).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

[ Tanz der Zigeuner vor einem Zelt], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Kampf, Arthur, 1864-1950

Creator: Kampf, Herbert

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor over pencil on stiff paper. Dimensions: sheet 27.2 x 37.2 cm. Signatures: unsigned and undated. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin; Arthur Kampf; Herbert Kampf. Verso: wet stamp "Aus dem Nachlass von Prof. Dr. A. Kampf," signed by hand by Herbert Kampf; "101 K" inscribed by hand twice. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Gerda Bassenge).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

[ Trinker am Holztisch], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen on paper with imprint from former mat in margins. Dimensions: sheet 18.5 x 24 cm. Signatures: initialled "A. K." in black ink. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin. References: not in Singer. Verso: number 3 within square inscribed in pencil; number 392 in blue crayon crossed out; number 164 within circle in purple crayon. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

[ Sketch of a Soldier and a Woman, Sketch of a Female Figure, Two Sketches of Hands and a Shoe], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on wove beige paper. Dimensions: sheet 45 x 33.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in Singer. Recto: traces of an erased inscription in the lower right of sheet. Verso: two collector's wet stamps "RSA" within circle; inscribed "Kampf" in pencil; number 42 within circle inscribed in purple crayon. Lugt: 4396. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

[ Woman with a Broom], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on brown paper. Dimensions: sheet 41.5 x 24 cm. Signatures: signed in pencil "A. Kampf" in the lower right corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in Singer. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Max Klinger, 1877-1898, 1912, undated

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

Scope and Contents

The drawings are not listed in Hans W. Singer's catalog Zeichnungen von Max Klinger (Leipzig: A. Schumann, 1912).

box 35

[ Studie für Mondnacht], 1877

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen on paper. Dimensions: sheet 34 x 53.3 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in black ink in the lower right of sheet "Max Kliger Leipzig 1877." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Related work: etching Mondnacht, sheet 3 from the cycle Vier Landschaften], Singer 125. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

[ Ein Faun belauscht zwei badende Frauen], circa 1880

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen and wash on thin velin paper. Dimensions: image 24.5 x 26 cm, sheet 32 x 29 cm. Signatures: signed in black ink "M. Klinger" below the image at right. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin. Recto: two matting marks in pencil. Verso: two collector's wet stamps "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Gerda Bassenge).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

Das Gesicht, 1894

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen and brown ink with brown wash and blue and red watercolor on stiff paper; partly mounted on stiff cream-colored paper inscribed by the artist in brown ink Das Gesicht. Dimemsions: sheet 40.4 x 8 cm, mount 48 x 20.8 cm. Signatures: monogrammed and dated "MK. 94" within the image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso of sheet: two collector's wet stamps "RSA" within circle. Verso of mount: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner. Lugt: 4396; 4395. Note: former mat was inscribed in pencil "83/675"; "360" within circle. Note: title from inscription on mount.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

[ Woman in Profile, Elsa Asenijeff?], 1898

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil with white highlights on grey paper. Dimensions: sheet 18.5 x 14.3 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in pencil "Max Klinger 98." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: number 8479 inscribed in pencil. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Portraits -- Germany -- 19th century

Asenijeff, Elsa

box 35

[ Sitzender Jünglingsakt und weitere Körperstudien], [late 19th century]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie Gerda Bassenge

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen with white highlights on brown velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 50 x 32.5 cm. Signatures: signed "M. Klinger" in pencil. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin. Recto: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; inscribed in pencil "hexx." Verso: several sketches of a female nude. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Gerda Bassenge).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

[ Sketches of a Female Nude], [late 19th century]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen with white highlights on brown velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 50 x 32.5 cm. Signatures: signed "M. Klinger" in pencil on verso. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: several sketches of a male nude; collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; inscribed in pencil "hexx." Lugt: 4396. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 35

[ Damenbildnis (Gertrude Bock?)], 1912

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Karl & Faber

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black and red ochre chalk with white, ochre, and blue gouache on brownish paper. Dimensions: sheet 72 x 43 cm. Signatures: signed by Max Klinger in black chalk and dated "L. 12.12.12." [Leipzig December, 12 1912]. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Karl & Faber, Munich. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; black chalk offset. Lugt: 4395. Note: title from dealer's description (Karl & Faber, Munich).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Portraits -- Germany -- 20th century

Melchior Lechter, 1921

box 86

[ Wirtshausgarten im Sommer], 1921 September 27

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Kippenberg, Heinrich

Creator: Nobbe, Willi

Creator: Hauswedell & Nolte

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: pastel on hardboard, multicolored. Dimensions: sheet 38 x 51.5 cm. Signatures: initialled and dated by Lechter in brown ink in the lower left corner of sheet "ML 27.9.21" [L inside M]. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Heinrich Kippenberg collection; Willi Nobbe collection; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg. Note: title from dealer's description (Hauswedell & Nolte).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pastels (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Ernst Friedrich Liphart, 1881

box 35

[ Portrait of Pierre Puvis de Chavannes], 1881

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen, brush, and ink on wove paper. Dimensions: sheet 44.5 x 34.2 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in ink "E de Liphart / 1881." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner. Lugt: 4395. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- France -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- France -- 19th century

Portraits -- France -- 19th century

Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre, 1824-1898

Wilhelm Loth, 1980

box 35

[ Nude Shape in a Triangle], 1980

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink pen with brown watercolor on white wove paper. Signatures: signed by Wilhelm Loth in pencil and dated "Jan 28 / 80" in the lower right corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Ludwig Meidner, 1911-1945

Arrangement

Arranged in the order of the catalogue raisonné of the Jacobson Collection. Prints, drawings and watercolors of Ludwig Meidner, the Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection (Los Angeles: University of Southern California Art Galleries, 1973). Drawings not included in the catalogue raisonné of the Jacobson Collection are listed at the end.

box 36

[ Construction Site], 1 (Jacobson) 1911

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobson, Ernest

Creator: Meidner, Ludwig, 1884-1966

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on ribbed laid paper. Dimensions: 47.5 x 53.5 cm. Signatures: signed in charcoal LM 1911. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection; Estate of Ludwig Meidner. References: Jacobson 1. Verso: collector's wet stamp "eJl" within circle; wet stamp of the artist's estate "Nachlass / Ludwig Meidner / Inv. Nr. 001" within a rectangle; inscribed in pencil "75 M," partly erased. Lugt: Jacobson and Meidner estate marks not in Lugt. Note: title from the catalog of the Jacobson Collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 36

Recto: [ Street], 3 (Jacobson) 1912

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobson, Ernest

Creator: Meidner, Ludwig, 1884-1966

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on wove paper. Dimensions: 46 x 53.5 cm. Signatures: signed in charcoal "LM 1912." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simmscollection, Los Angeles; Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection; Estate of Ludwig Meidner. References: Jacobson 3. Verso: collector's wet stamp "eJl" within circle; wet stamp of the artist's estate "Nachlass / Ludwig Meidner / Inv. Nr. 002" within a rectangle; inscribed in pencil "75 Mark"; ink drawing Prophetic Scene, cancelled with an X and inscribed ungültig. Lugt: Jacobson and Meidner estate marks not in Lugt. Note: title from the catalog of the Jacobson Collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 36

Verso: [ Prophetic Scene], 3 (Jacobson) 1912?

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobson, Ernest

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black ink on wove paper. Dimensions: 46 x 53.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection; Estate of Ludwig Meidner. References: Jacobson 3. Recto: collector's wet stamp "eJl" within circle; wet stamp of the artist's estate "NACHLASS/Ludwig Meidner/Inv. Nr. 002" within a rectangle; inscribed in pencil 75 Mark; the drawing is cancelled in pencil with an X and inscribed ungültig. Verso: drawing Street, Jacobson 3. Lugt: Jacobson and Meidner estate marks not in Lugt. Note: English title from the catalog of the Jacobson Collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 36

[ Construction Site], 4 (Jacobson) 1912

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobson, Ernest

Creator: Meidner, Ludwig, 1884-1966

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on wove paper. Dimensions: 54 x 46 cm. Signatures: signed in charcoal "LM 1912." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection; Estate of Ludwig Meidner. References: Jacobson 4. Verso: collector's wet stamp "eJl" within circle; wet stamp of the artist's estate "Nachlass / Ludwig Meidner / Inv. Nr. 005" within a rectangle; inscribed in pencil "75 M." Lugt: Jacobson and Meidner estate marks not in Lugt. Note: title from the catalog of the Jacobson Collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 36

[ Cafe Scene], 9 (Jacobson) 1915

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobson, Ernest

Creator: Kochmann, Franz

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: ink, pencil, and gouache on woven paper. Dimensions: image 36 x 51.5 cm, sheet 42.3 x 55.6 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in ink in the lower left of the image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection; Franz Kochmann, Dresden. References: Jacobson 9. Verso: collector's wet stamp RSA within circle; collector's wet stamp "eJl" within circle; inscribed in pencil "No. 3," inscribed in pencil "zu Winter anno 17"; inscribed in pencil letter X; inscribed in pencil "Ludwig Meidner / Handzeichnung / unverkäuflich / Besitzer Franz Kochmann / Dresden Blasewitz." Lugt: 4396; Jacobson mark not in Lugt. Note: title from the catalog of the Jacobson Collection. Note: previous mat with exhibition label is preserved.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 36

[ Self-Portrait], 36 (Jacobson) 1929

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobson, Ernest

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: ink, pencil, and gouache on ribbed laid paper. Dimensions: sheet: 33 x 21 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in ink in the lower right corner of image "Meidner Juni 1929." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection. References: Jacobson 36. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; collector's wet stamp "eJl" within circle; inscribed in pencil number 3 within circle; inscribed in pencil "Selbstbildnis 600, DM." Lugt: 4396; Jacobson mark not in Lugt. Note: title from the catalog of the Jacobson Collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 36

[ People in Pub], 41 (Jacobson) 1945

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobson, Ernest

Creator: Meidner, Ludwig, 1884-1966

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and charcoal on wove paper. Dimensions: image 62 x 48 cm, sheet 72 x 54 cm. Signatures: signed in charcoal "LM 45." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection; Estate of Ludwig Meidner. References: Jacobson 41. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; collector's wet stamp "eJl" within circle; wet stamp of the artist's estate "Nachlass / Ludwig Meidner / Inv. Nr. 033" within a rectangle. Lugt: 4395; Jacobson and Meidner estate marks not in Lugt. Note: title from the catalog of the Jacobson Collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 81

[ Strasse bei Nacht II], 1913

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Schultz, Bernd (collector)

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen and brush and India ink with highlights in white gouache on thick white paper with a floral blind stamp in the lower right corner of sheet. Dimensions: sheet 55 x 43 cm. Signatures: signed and dated within the image in lower right "L. Meidner / 1913." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; private collection in Hesse; Art Dealership, Switzerland; Jörg Maass Art Dealership, Berlin; Bern Schultz collection, Berlin. References: Auction 134 / Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 26 May 2006, cat. no. 38. Recto: inscribed in pencil in the lower left of sheet "Meidner Strasse bei Nacht II." Verso: number 11 inscribed in ink; "[illegible] / 3440" inscribed in pencil. Note: title from inscription on recto.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 81

[ Self-Portrait with Tongue Sticking Out], 1914

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Schultz, Bernd (collector)

Creator: Deyhle, Rolf

Creator: Loth, Wilhelm, 1920-1993

Creator: Meidner, Ludwig, 1884-1966

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on paper. Dimensions: sheet 35 x 32.5 cm. Signatures: signed and dated on pencil "L. Meidner / 1914." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Bern Schultz collection, Berlin; Rolf Deyhle collection, Stuttgart; Wilhelm Loth collection, Darmstadt; Estate of Ludwig Meidner. References: Auction 146 / Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 9 June 2006, cat. no. 165. Verso: number 100 inscribed in ink, within circle; wet stamp of the artist's estate "Nachlass / Ludwig Meidner / Inv. Nr. II / 112" within a rectangle. Lugt: Meidner estate mark not in Lugt. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Wilhelm Morgner, 1914

Scope and Contents

With a reference to the Estate of Georg Tappert inventory number and the catalogue raisonné Wilhelm Morgner 1891-1917 Zeichnungen und Aquarelle by Andrea Witte (Münster: In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Westfälischen Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 1992).

box 36

[ Kreuzigung], 1116 (TN) 1914

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Buller, Wilhelm

Creator: Tappert, Georg, 1880-1957

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and pen and ink on paper; mounted on woven paper. Dimensions: sheet 16 x 20.5 cm, mount 49.7 x 34 cm. Signatures: monogrammed in black ink "WM [in one] 14." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Wilhelm Buller collection, Duisburg; Georg Tappert Estate. References: Tappert inventory number 1116; not in Witte. Verso: inscribed in pencil "Buller"; number 1116 inscribed in red crayon; wet stamp in green ink "Morgner / NA [illegible] No. / Tappert." Recto of mount: inscribed in pencil "Buller." Verso of mount: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; paper label printed and inscribed in ink ball pen "Sammlung Buller / Katalog Nr. 214 / Wilhelm Morgner / Kreuzigung"; inscribed in pencil "Buller"; inscribed in pencil "Tappert 1116." Note: title from label on verso.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Max Pechstein, 1911

Scope and Contents

With a reference to the exhibition catalog for Kate Steinitz Art and Collection, held at the Art Gallery, California State College San Bernardino, April 10-May 14, 1982. Also exhibited in The Kate Steinitz Collection, held at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, August 2-September 21, 1969.

box 36

Recto: [ Figures at a Table], 1911

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Steinitz, Kate Traumann, 1889-1975

Creator: Neumann, J. B. (Jsrael Ber)

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: green, blue, yellow, brown, and grey crayon and pen and ink on paper. Dimensions: sheet 11 x 14 cm. Signatures: initialled "MP" in the lower right corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Kate Traumann Steinitz collection, Los Angeles; J. B. Neumann collection, Berlin. References: Kate Steinitz Art and Collection, 107; The Kate Steinitz Collection, page [4]. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; undated pencil sketch on the same subject. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from 1982 exhibition catalog Kate Steinitz Art and Collection.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Bernhard Pankok, 1893

box 36

[ Selbstbildnis mit Brille (Brustbild)], 1893

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Karl & Faber

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil and black ink and wash on smooth brown paper. Signatures: signed and dated "31. Jan. 93 / Pankok." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Karl & Faber, Munich. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; inscribed in pencil "902 CXXV 213111 / 0634." Lugt: 4396. Note:title from dealer's description (Karl & Faber).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Jules Pascin, early 20th century

box 36

Ménage à trois, 20th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Feingarten Galleries

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Black ink pen, pencil and watercolor on paper; mounted. Dimensions: sheet and mount 15.5 x 23 cm. Signatures: signed in ink Pascin in the lower right of sheet; artist's wet stamp "Atelier / Pascin" in the lower right of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles. Verso: number 29 within circle inscribed in pencil; another illegible mark in pencil. Note: title from dealer's description (Feingarten Galleries).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Pen and ink drawings

Drawings (visual works)

Watercolors (paintings)

Ilya Repin, 1879

Scope and Contents

The catalog of the retrospective exhibition held at the State Tretyakov Gallery in 1924 lists a pencil drawing and an oil sketch, both preparatory for the 1879 painting Provody novobrantsa. See: Il'ia Efimovich Repin 1844-1924 (Moskva: Izdanie Gosudarstvennoĭ Tret'iakovskoĭ Gallerei, 1924).

box 36

[ Young Russian Peasant Standing], 1879

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Shepherd & Derom Galleries

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black chalk blended with stump on wove paper. Dimensions: sheet 23.3 x 17 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in ink in Cyrillic "Il. Repin/1879 g." in the lower left corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Shepherd & Derome Galleries, New York. Note: study for the 1879 painting Provody novobrantsa. Related work: 1879 drawing Dvornik and 1879 oil painting Dvornik; both listed in the 1924 State Tretyakov Gallery exhibition catalog, no. 57 and no. 58. Note: title from dealer's description (Shepherd & Derom Galleries).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Russia -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Russia -- 19th century

Rudolf Schlichter, 1929-1932

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

box 37

Dienstmädchen, 1929

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and pencil on heavy ivory watercolor paper. Dimensions: sheet 77.5 x 57 cm. Signatures: signed in pencil "R. Schlichter" in the lower right and inscribed "Dienstmädchen" in the lower left; both inscriptions are in Sütterlin. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: illegible mark in pencil in the lower left corner of sheet. Verso: a pencil sketch of a woman's head; collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; collector's wet stamp letter S crossed out within a square; inscribed in pencil "Dienstmädchen 1929/D.M."; a cross mark and number 66 inscribed in pencil; number 104 inscribed in pencil in the upper right of sheet. Lugt: 4395; collector's mark not in Lugt. Note: title from inscription on recto.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 37

[ Frau K.], 1932

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Hauswedell & Nolte

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on parchment paper. Dimensions: sheet 48.5 x 38.5 cm. Signatures: signed and dated by the artist in Sütterlin "Rudolf Schlichter Sept. 32." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg. Recto: inscribed in pencil "Frau K." in the lower left corner on sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Hauswedell & Nolte).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, circa 1925

Scope and Contents

With a reference to: Wietek, Gerhard. "Schmidt-Rottluff in Hamburg und Schleswig-Holstein," Kunst in Schleswig-Holstein, (Neumünster: Karl Wachholtz Verlag), vol. 25, 1984, plate 21.

flatfile 6**

Blooming Cactuses [ Blühende Kakteen], [ca. 1925]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Delbanco, Elsa, 1876-

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and India ink on watercolor cardboard. Dimensions: sheet 69.7 x 49.5 cm. Signatures: signed K Rottluff in watercolor in the lower right of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Elsa Delbanco collection, Hamburg and London. References: Wietek, plate 21. Verso: inscribed in pencil Blühende Kakteen; number 70 and price marked in pencil. Mat inscription: former mat had collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; printed label of Galerie Aubry; number 41 on black paper pasted in. Lugt: 4395. Note: German title from inscription on verso.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

Franz Skarbina, 1891-1909, undated

Scope and Contents

With references to the exhibition catalog, Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich, Königliche Akademie der Künste Berlin, September-November 1910 (München-Berlin: F. Bruckmann, 1910); and Margrit Bröhan, Franz Skarbina (Berlin: Ars Nicolai, c1995).

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

box 37

[ Sitzende Dame mit Muff] or [ Seated Lady with Muff], 1891

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Galerie St. Etienne

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and gouache (black, brown, green, red ochre, ochre, blue, pink, and white) on stiff brown paper. Dimensions: sheet 38.5 x 27.5 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in brown ink F. Skarbina/1891. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich; not in Bröhan. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in blue crayon A. 278. Lugt: 4395. Note: both titles from dealer's description.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

Gouaches (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 37

[ Hausfront im Laternenlicht], 1892

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Skarbina, Franz, 1849-1910

Creator: Galerie Nierendorf

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal and white chalk on stiff paper; mounted on cardboard and glued into a mat. Dimensions: visible image 26.5 x 16.5 cm, in mat 38 x 28 cm. Signatures: signed and dated "F. Skarbina / 1892" in charcoal in the lower right of image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection; Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin; Estate of Franz Skarbina. References: not in exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich; not in Bröhan. Verso: number 792 inscribed in pencil; two other illegible markings in pencil. Mat inscription: the backboard of previous mat is preserved; inscribed in ink "Zeichnung von Prof. Franz Skarbina/gekauft aus dem Nachlass im Jahre 1911 (Jänner)"; number 792 inscribed in pencil; printed label of the Villa Grisebach auction house; clipping from auction catalog. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Nierendorf).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 37

[ Alter Winkel], circa 1895

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Skarbina, Franz, 1849-1910

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on ribbed laid paper. Dimensions: sheet 68 x 50 cm. Signatures: signed in charcoal "F. Skarbina" in the lower left corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich, 206; not in Bröhan. Recto: below the signature are inscribed in charcoal the dimensions of the sheet "0,66 1 / 2 0,48." Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in pencil "50 1/2 - 69 Aussen Köster." Lugt: 4395. Note: title from exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 37

[ Alt-Berliner Dächer], 1896

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Skarbina, Franz, 1849-1910

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor on stiff velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 27.5 x 47.5 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in lower margin "F. Skarbina / 1896." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References:exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich, 125; Bröhan, Margrit, Franz Skarbina, 52. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; illegible mark and letter X in inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 37

[ Dame in blauem Mantel mit Schirm auf der Strasse], late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Spliethoff, H. M. , Dr.

Creator: Skarbina, Franz, 1849-1910

Creator: Galerie Nierendorf

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal and blue chalk, with pink and white highlights on grey paper. Dimensions: sheet 43.7 x 30.1 cm. Signatures: signed "F. Skarbina" in black ink along the edge of sheet at right. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin; Dr. H. M. Spliethoff collection. References: exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich, 159?, Studie, junge Dame, after reduction of sheet; not in Bröhan. Verso: two collector's wet stamps "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; collector's wet stamp "Sammlung Dr. H. M. Spliethoff"; marked in pencil "o. Lugt"; inscribed in blue chalk "A 385." Lugt: 4395; collectors mark not in Lugt. Note: title from dealer's description (Galerie Nierendorf).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 37

Lesende Alte, late 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor (blue, brown, red ochre, red, and pink) on velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 33.2 x 20.5 cm. Signatures: signed in dark red ink "F. Skarbina." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich; not in Bröhan. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number 138 inscribed in pencil; inscribed in pencil "F. Skarbina / Lesende Alte." Lugt: 4396. Note: title from inscription on verso.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 37

[ Bauernfuhrwerke, eines mit Pferd bespannt, vor einer Hausfront], 1909

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal and red crayon on paper; mounted on stiff paper. Dimensions: sheet 13.5 x 19.8 cm, mount 15.3 x 21.6 cm. Signatures: signed and dated in charcoal "F. Skarbina / 1909." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in exhibition catalog Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich; not in Bröhan. Mat Inscription: former mat had dealer's description pasted in the lower right corner of mat. Note: title from dealer's description on mat.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Max Slevogt, 1895-1919, undated

Scope and Contents

With references to the catalog of the exhibition Max Slevogt Gemälde Aquarelle Zeichnungen, presented at the Saarland-Museum Saarbrücken, the Landesmuseum Mainz, and other museums during 1992. (Stuttgart: G. Hatje, c1992).

Arrangement

Arranged chronologically.

box 37

Penthesilea, 1895

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor (blue, green, red, yellow, purple) and brown ink pen on paper. Dimensions: sheet 22.4 x 28.5 cm. Signatures: signed and inscribed by Max Slevogt in ink "Slevogt / Penthesilea 1895." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: not in Saarland-Museum Saarbrücken catalog. Recto: inscribed in pencil "No. 94." Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number 46 within circle inscribed in pencil; a pencil sketch; drawing from recto partially visible due to heavy inking. Note: title from artist's inscription.

See also: two lithographs Penthesilea in Box 31.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 37

[ Tanz der Morgiane mit dem Dolche], 1903

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Hauswedell & Nolte

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor (blue, green, yellow, and red), white and dark grey gouache, and ink pen on paper. Dimensions: image 17 x 30 cm, sheet 21 x 33 cm. Signatures: signed by Max Slevogt in ink in the lower right corner of image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg. References: not in Saarland-Museum Saarbrücken catalog. Recto: number 43 inscribed in pencil and crossed out. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; numbers 6 and 151 inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Hauswedell & Nolte).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 37

[ Mundschenke servieren einen von Würsten umgebenen Schweinekopf], circa 1919

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen and brown ink on velin paper with "München Dachau" watermark. Dimensions: image 12 x 15 cm, sheet 16.5 x 21 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles, Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg, Heidelber. References: not in Saarland-Museum Saarbrücken catalog. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; drawing from recto partially visible due to heavy inking; a number inscribed in pencil erased, but partly visible. Lugt: 4396. Note: German title from dealer's description (Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 37

[ Soldaten werfen zwei Nackte in einen Fluss mit Ertrinkenden], circa 1919

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen and brown ink on chamois velin. Dimensions: image 15.5 x 13.5 cm, sheet 21 x 16.5 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg, Heidelberg. References: not in Saarland-Museum-Saarbrücken catalog. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number E31951 inscribed in pencil; drawing from recto partially visible due to heavy inking. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

box 37

[ Arabischer Markt], late 19th century or early 20th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Hauswedell & Nolte

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen and brown ink on light lined velin paper. Dimensions: sheet 28.5 x 22 cm. Signatures: signed by Max Slevogt in ink in the lower right corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg. References: not in Saarland-Museum Saarbrücken catalog. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number 4502 inscribed in pencil; numbers "133/157" inscribed in pencil and crossed out; numbers "132/3216 [illegible] 100" inscribed in pencil; number 189 within circle inscribed in pencil; drawing from recto partially visible due to heavy inking. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from dealer's description (Hauswedell & Nolte).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 20th century

Karl Stauffer-Bern, 1883

box 38

[ Sicht auf Schloss Glienicke] or [ View of Castle of Glienicke], 1883

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Emanuel von Baeyer (Gallery)

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: black chalk and wash on thick paper; mounted. Dimensions: sheet and mount 20.7 x 13.1 cm. Signatures: signed, dated and inscribed by the artist "K. Stauffer Bern Glienicke 83." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Emanuel von Bayer, London. Verso: two collector's wet stamps "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: both titles from dealer's description (Emanuel von Bayer).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Chalk drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, 19th century

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically.

box 38

[ La Rixe], 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal with white gouache and green crayon on paper primed with yellowish gouache. Dimensions: 39.5 x 53 cm. Signatures: signed in charcoal "Steinlen" in the lower right corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in black ink "Steinlen La Rixe/Dessin Orginal"; number 220 within circle inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4395. Note: title from inscription on verso.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- France -- 19th century

Charcoal drawings -- France -- 19th century

Gouaches (paintings) -- France -- 19th centuray

box 38

[ Portrait présumé de Verlaine], 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal hightened with red and white pastel on greyish-blue laid paper with watermarks "Ingres" and "JCA France." Dimensions: sheet 59.5 x 48 cm. Signatures: signed in charcoal Steinlen. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner; inscribed in pencil are the numbers 330/A 3868/412004. Lugt: 4395. Note: title from dealer's description (PIASA S.A.).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- France -- 19th century

Charcoal drawings -- France -- 19th century

Pastels (visual works) -- France -- 19th century

Portraits -- France -- 19th century

Verlaine, Paul, 1844-1896

Franz von Stuck, circa 1895

box 38

[ Pan beobachtet Kentaurenpaar und einen Triton mit Nereide], circa 1895

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Rümann, Wilhelm von, 1850-1906

Creator: Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: ink pen and wash hightened with white gouache on thick stiff paper. Dimensions: image 29 x 29 cm, sheet 32.5 x 31.5 cm. Signatures: signed in ink by Franz Stuck in the lower right corner of image; dedication in ink inscribed in the lower right "Seinem lieben Rühmann." Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg, Heidelberg; Wilhelm von Rümann, Munich. Recto: inscribed in pencil in the lower margin "1351a." Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; number 12929 inscribed in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Note: dedicated to the German sculptor Wilhelm von Rümann. Note: title from dealer's description (Kunstantiquariat Arno Winterberg).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and wash drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Hans Thoma, 19th century?

Arrangement

Arranged alphabeticaally.

box 38

[ Man Sitting in a Landscape, Seen from Behind], 19th century?

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Jacobson, Ernest

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor and black ink pen on thick smooth paper. Signatures: signed by Hans Thoma in pencil below the image and monogrammed in the lower right of image. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Ernest and Lilly Jacobson Collection. Verso: inscribed in pencil '1/92-L. Jacobson," with a price mark. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 38

Seascape and Shore, 19th century?

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: brown ink pen and watercolor on thin paper. Dimensions: 8.6 x 19.2 cm. Signatures: signed and monogrammed by Hans Thoma in brown ink in the lower left corner of sheet. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Recto: illegible signature in ink. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Heinrich Zille, 19th century?

box 38

[ Mother and Children with the Woodman's Wife], 19th century?

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Marilyn Pink (Art dealer)

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: conté crayon, pencil, and brown crayon on thick cream smooth wove paper. Dimensions: sheet 26 x 33.2 cm. Signatures: signed "H. Zille" in pencil in the lower right corner of sheet; several captions inscribed in conté crayon by the artist. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Marilyn Pink, Los Angeles. Recto: letter A and number 9.1 inscribed in pencil in the lower right corner of sheet. Note: title from dealer's description (Marilyn Pink).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 38

[ Vagabond Artist], 19th century?

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Marilyn Pink (Art dealer)

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pencil on paper. Dimensions: sheet 24 x 17.5 cm. Signatures: signed in pencil "H. Zille" in the lower left. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Marilyn Pink, Los Angeles. Note: title from dealer's description (Marilyn Pink).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pencil drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Attribution unknown, 19th century, 1906?

Physical Description: 3 drawing(s)

box 38

[ Centaur Seizing a Fawn], 19th century

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: charcoal on laid paper. Dimensions: sheet 33 x 58 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Note: acquired without attribution. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Charcoal drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 38

[ Man in Bed and Man with a Spear ], [19th century?]

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 drawing(s)

Scope and Contents

Technique: pen and ink on thin paper. Dimensions: sheet 11.5 x 7.3 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. Verso: initials "W. J." inscribed in pencil. Note: acquired without attribution. Note: title devised.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Drawings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Pen and ink drawings -- Germany -- 19th century

box 38

[ The Temple of Vesta] or [ Der Tempel der Vesta], 1906?

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Rath Kunsthandlung Basel

Creator: Marilyn Pink (Art dealer)

Physical Description: 1 item

Scope and Contents

Technique: watercolor on woven paper; mounted on hardboard and glued into a mat. Dimensions: visible image 28.7 x 48.5 cm, in mat 33 x 54 cm, cardboard 38 x 56 cm. Signatures: unsigned. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Rath Kunsthandlung Basel; Marilyn Pink, Los Angeles. Note: preserved are a handritten note in German, dated in 1906; label of Fr. Rath Kunsthandlung Basel; and label of Marilyn Pink Fine Arts in Los Angeles. Note: acquired without attribution. Note: titles from labels on back of hardboard.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Watercolors (paintings) -- Germany -- 20th century

Prints, Series II.B. 1851-circa 1945, undated

Physical Description: 38.5 Linear Feet(11 boxes)

Arrangement

Arranged alphabetically by artist's name. The artworks for each artist are listed by the corresponding number in the artist's catalogue raisonné.

Scope and Contents

Present are 140 prints by artists from the late nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries who are representative of the various artistic directions of this period, such as symbolism, impressionism and expressionism. There are also prints by Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder and Alfred Rethel, both German artists from the period of romanticism from the first half of the nineteenth century. The majority of the artists are German; with exception of Emma Bormann, who was Austrian; the French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; the, German-born, Norwegian artist Rolf Nesch; and Swiss artists Karl Stauffer-Bern, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, and Albert Welti. Altogether, twenty-five artists are represented.

The largest group comprise forty-six prints by Max Klinger, followed by twelve prints by Lovis Corinth, twelve prints by Otto Greiner, and ten prints by Max Pechstein. Wilhelm Leibl, Ludwig Meidner and Emil Nolde are each represented with eight prints. Rolf Nesh and Max Slevogt are each represented with six prints, and Christian Rohlfs and Albert Welti are each represented with three prints. One or two prints are present by Ernst Barlach, Emma Bormann, Walter Gramatté, George Grosz, Karl Wilhelm Hirsch, Carl Wilhelm Kolbe, Hans Meid, Emil Orlik, Bernhard Pankok, Alfred Rethel, Franz Skarbina, Théophile Alexandre Steinlen, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Several of these artists were part of Käthe Kollwitz's artistic circles and influenced her work, including Karl Stauffer-Bern, who taught a course in portrait painting at an art school for women in Berlin that Kollwitz took in 1886. Max Klinger's treatise Malerei und Zeichnung von 1885 and his cycles Ein Leben and Eine Liebe were, according to Kollwitz herself, an important impulse motivating her to explore printing techniques. Another artist from Kollwitz's artistic circles in Berlin was the expressionist sculptor, printmaker, and writer Ernst Barlach (1870-1938), whose woodcuts inspired her compositions commemorating the death of the socialist and communist politician Karl Liebknecht. Several of the artists represented in the collection were also members of the art association the Berlin Secession, founded in 1898, includig Ernst Barlach, Lovis Corinth, Max Klinger, Hans Meid, Emil Nolde, Emil Orlik, and Max Slevogt.

Ernst Barlach took, like Kollwitz, a firm anti-war position. Having initially supported the war effort, after a short deployment in World War I, Barlach turned to pacifist, mostly religious and mystical subjects. The Simms collection includes the 1919 woodcut Schreibender Prophet (Johannes auf Patmos). The woodcut is a proof before the edition. Also included is a lithograph self-portrait of Barlach executed posthumously in 1945 from Barlach's drawing probably by Siegfried Pülschen of Lübeck.

Emma Bormann (1887-1974) was an accomplished printmaker known mainly for linocuts and woodcuts depicting city views, street scenes, and public performance venues such as theaters, opera houses, or concert halls. The Simms collection includes a linocut in five colors from approximately 1928 titled by the artist Königsberg Lastadie (some impressions are known to be titled by the artist Königsberg, Hundegatt).

The prints by Lovis Corinth (1859-1925), whose art is viewed as a synthesis of impressionism and expressionism, include early artwork from 1894, four prints from 1914 and 1918, and three self-portraits from 1920. With exception of a lithograph of a female nude from 1914, the prints are etchings with drypoint, Corinth's favored printing technique, and predominantly proofs before the edition. Among the early artwork are sheets 5, 6, and 9 from the cycle Tragikomödien.

Walter Gramatté (1897-1929) was associated with the group of expressionist artists Die Brücke. His art was inspired by his experiences in the First World War and his illness. The collection includes state II of the lithograph Mann (Der Mörder), from 1919. The lithograph is unsigned and hand colored.

The prints by Otto Greiner (1869-1916), who like Klinger was a leading German symbolist, date from 1889 to 1900 and from 1914. As a graphic artist Greiner is best known for his lithographs. The states of most of his prints were not yet established when Julius Vogel wrote his catalogue raisonné of Greiner's graphic works, which was published in 1917, shortly after Greiner's death. Present are some of Greiner's best known early works, such as the small and the large version of the Golgotha: Golgatha, Kleine Kreuzigung Christi and Golgatha, Grosse Kreuzigung Christi, from 1896 and 1900; or Der Teufel zeigt das Weib dem Volke (Die Feilbietung). Greiner's late work is represented with two lithographs from 1914: a portrait of the Duranti family in Rome and a portrait of Max Klinger.

George Grosz (1893-1959) is represented with an unnumbered proof or edition print of the lithograph Tod auf der Strassse from 1920 or 1921; and an edition print of the lithograph Aus dem Zirkus Médrano from 1924. Both works are examples of the artist's expressive and often caricature-like use of line employed to express fierce social commentary dating from the time of the Weimar Republic.

The expressionist artist Karl Jakob Hirsch (1892-1952) is represented with the woodcut Der tanzende Stern (IX), also known as Adam und Eva, from 1915, the time when Hirsch moved to Berlin and contributed illustrations to Die Aktion, a left-wing journal promoting expressionism.

Max Klinger (1857-1920) was a prolific and creative printmaker celebrated for his use of graphic arts, especially intaglio printing, to explore imaginative subjects related to myth and fantasy. The forty-six prints in the collection date from 1882 to 1919 and are predominantly early impressions, complete or incomplete trial proofs, or proofs before steel-facing. Present are sheets from several of Klinger's famous cycles, including Four Landscapes ( Vier Landschaften) (sheets 1, 3, 4); Summer Afternoon ( Sommernachmittag) (sheet 4); A Life ( Ein Leben) (sheet 2, 4, 7, 9); Dramas ( Dramen) (sheets 2, 3, 5, 6, 10); On Death ( Vom Tode) (sheet 5); Brahms Fantasies ( Brahmsphantasie) (sheets 8, 25, rejected sheet 8); On Death Part Two ( Vom Tode zweiter Teil) (sheet 7); several single prints; eleven proofs in various colors of ink and printed on various papers for an ex-libris of Dr. Med. C. Schirren; and two proofs for an ex-libris of Otto E. Richter, along with a pen and ink preparatory drawing.

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe the Elder (1757-1835), an artist from the period of German romanticism, is represented with an undated and untitled proof impression of an etching depicting oak trees.

During the 1870s, the realist painter Wilhelm Leibl (1844-1900) executed a series of nineteen etchings depicting human figures, some as representations of types, such as peasant women, as well as portraits of known male and female sitters. Included are eight etchings from the series, dating from 1873 to 1877. The prints are mostly known states, but proofs before the edition are also present.

The impressionist painter Hans Meid (1883-1957) is also known for his etchings. Present in the Simms collection is the etching Frau und Neger, also known as Frau im Pelz und Neger. The etching was executed in 1910, the year Meid joined the Berlin Secession in Berlin and was awarded the prestigious Villa-Romana-Prize.

The expressionist artist Ludwig Meidner (1884-1966) is represented with eight etchings dating from 1919 to 1926, all formerly from the collection of Ernest and Lilly Jacobson. Present are a portrait of the German art historian Wilhelm Valentiner, a self-portrait, landscapes, and a view of a courtyard. The prints are proof impressions or early states.

The expressionist artist Rolf Nesch (1893-1975) was especially noted for his printmaking. The Simms collection includes four etchings dating from 1928 to 1931, the time when Nesch lived in Hamburg, Germany and before he repatriated to Norway in 1933. Present are trial proofs of color etchings The Milliner and Sauerlandt's Daughters; one of three known impressions of the color etching Tiger; and a unique impression of the drypoint Karl Muck Conducting. Two prints from 1965 and 1968, the metal collage The Pigtail from 1965 and the color metal print The Victor from 1968, exemplify Nesch's interest in exploring new printing methods and materials, especially the use of metal pressure technology in printmaking.

Emil Nolde (1867-1956) was one of the first expressionists and a member of the group Die Brücke. The collection includes two etchings from 1906, the year Nolde joined Die Brücke. The etching Akt is from a limited edition of sixty-six impressions, of which twenty numbered impressions were part of a portfolio published by Die Brücke. The impression in the Simms collection is not numbered. The etching Unterhaltung, also from 1906, is part of a limited edition of twenty impressions. Another limited edition print by Nolde is the etching Tanz I from 1908. The 1915 ink and brush lithograph Südsee-Insulaner II is a trial proof. The collection also includes four impressions of the lithograph Eremit from 1926, each printed in various inks on thin Japan paper.

The painter and graphic designer Emil Orlik (1870-1932) was an accomplished printmaker, who excelled in woodcuts, etchings, and lithographs. Present are an unknown state of an early self-potrait in etching and drypoint titled Biedermeier - Selbstportrait, from 1896; and an unknown state of the 1915 color etching Feluke am Nil, executed with addition of drypoint, retroussage, and roulette.

The German painter, printmaker, architect, and designer Bernhard Pankok (1872-1943) is represented with an undated etching and drypoint Landcape with Cows, marked as first state; and a chalk lithograph of a self-portrait from 1937.

The prints by the expressionist painter and printmaker Max Pechstein (1881-1955) include the drypoint Frau mit Pelz, issued in 1917 by Fritz Gurlitt in Berlin in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies; and a hand-colored woodcut and sheet 1 from the series Das Vater Unser, printed by Fritz Voigt and published in portfolio by the Propyläen-Verlag in Berlin in 1921. The woodcut is likely part of Edition A, consisting of 50 hand-colored copies. Also present is the complete cycle of eight etchings titled Yali und sein weisses Weib, which was published by Fritz-Gurlitt-Verlag in Berlin within the series Neue Bilderbücher 1923. The edition consisted of 220 numbered copies and an unknown number of unnumbered edition prints, produced at the Manus-Offizin of Fritz Voigt in Berlin. Pechstein created the cycle using drypoint, roulette, and brush; with addition of various hatching techniques applied to the figure of Yali. Only the numbered and unnumbered edition prints are known of this series. In the cycle Pechstein illustrates a story written in 1914 by the German author Willy Seidel. Seidel's story is a fantasy about an innocent European woman in a faraway exotic land. Although Seidel's novel is set in South America, Pechstein based his imagery on the Palau Islands in the South Pacific, to which he had traveled in 1914. The illustrations of Seidel's story are among numerous prints Pechstein made for the Berlin-based dealer and print publisher Wolfgang Gurlitt, who had financed his trip to the Pacific.

Alfred Rethel (1816-1859), a German romanticist, is represented with one of his best known graphic images Der Tod als Freund, incised in wood nach Rethel's drawing by Richard Julius Jungtow in 1851. The print is state II before letters.

The expressionist artist Christian Rohlfs (1849-1938) is represented with three woodcuts dating from 1912 to 1915. States are not established for the woodcuts.

The impressionist painter, draftsman, etcher and illustrator Franz Skarbina (1849-1910) is represented with the chalk lithograph A Seated Female in a Translucent Dress from 1895 which is not listed neither in the catalog of Skarbina's first comprehensive exhibition Gedächtnis-Ausstellungen Franz Skarbina Jos. M. Olbrich, held between September and November 1910 at the Königliche Akademie der Künste in Berlin, nor in Margrit Bröhan's 1995 catalog Franz Skarbina.

The impressionist painter and prolific illustrator Max Slevogt (1868-1932) is represented with six graphic works dating from 1904 to 1927. Present is the final state of the etching Meditation, which is the title sheet from the cycle Schwarze Szenen, issued in a printed portfolio by Bruno Cassirer in Berlin in 1905. The complete portfolio is also part of the Simms collection and is housed in box 59 in subseries II.C. Portfolios of prints. Slevogt's lithograph Penthesilea, dated between 1905 and 1906, is represented with state 1, reworked in pencil and hand-colored in gouache and watercolor; and state 2. The etched self-portrait of Slevogt Sebstbildnis mit gerunzelten Brauen, from 1912, is represented with state 3, which was subsequently published in 1915 in a limited edition of 30 copies by Bruno Cassirer in Berlin. A chalk lithograph is a study in reverse for the sheet Hektor nimmt Abschied von Andromache und Kind from Slevogt's portfolio of prints Hektor, 9 Kreidelithographien zur Illias, published in 1921 by Verlag Bruno Cassirer in Berlin. Also present is a sheet from Slevogt's portfolio of prints Goethe's Faust, Zweiter Teil, published in 1927 by Bruno Cassirer in Berlin.

The painter, etcher, and sculptor Karl Stauffer-Bern (1857-1891) was Käthe Kollwitz's art teacher in Berlin in 1886. It was Stauffer-Bern who introduced her to the work of Max Klinger. The Simms collection includes nine etched portraits by Stauffer-Bern, dating from 1885 to 1887. Present are state VIII of the portrait of the artist's sister Sophie Stauffer; state III and state V of the portrait of the German etcher Peter Halm; a new impression of state III of the portrait of the German artist Adolf von Menzel; state IV of the portrait of Eva Dohm, wife of the Hungarian sculptor Max Klein; a new impression of state IV of the portrait of the artist's mother Luise Stauffer; and state V of the portrait of the German novelist and playwright Gustav Freytag. Also included are state IId of the etching Liegender Weiblicher Akt, to which Stauffer-Bern referred as Wallon, which is Swiss for Wally and was the model's first name; and state VI of the etching Männlicher Akt; both from 1886.

Théophile Alexandre Steinlen (1859-1923) was an Art Nouveau painter and printmaker known for his poster designs, especially the poster for the Parisian entertainment establishment Le chat noir. The Simms collection includes an unnumbered proof of Steinlen's color etching Modèle lisant from 1898.

It was at Le chat noir where Steinlen met the painter, draughtsman, and printmaker Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). Present in the collection is Toulouse-Lautrec's design for the score of a song with text by Achille Melandri and music by Desiré Dihau, called The Little Errand Girl ( Le petit trottin), from 1893. The design is a hand-colored lithograph, the third state with lettering designed by Toulouse-Lautrec as in state I, but the name and address of the publisher as in state II removed.

Albert Welti (1862-1912) was a Swiss symbolist painter and printmaker, who was influenced by the German symbolist painter Arnold Böcklin, known for his depiction of a magical world of nymphs and satyrs. Welti also studied under the German etcher Peter Halm. The collection includes three steel etchings with aquatint by Welti from 1895: states III and IV of the first version of a depiction of the biblical flood Der Sintflut Anfang, erste Platte; and state III of the second version on the same subject Der Sintflut Anfang, zweite Platte.

Occasionally mentioned mat description relates to the mat in which the artwork was received by the repository.

Ernst Barlach, 1919, circa 1945

Arrangement

Arranged in the order of the catalogues raisonné by Friedrich Schult and Elisabeth Laur. Schult, Friedrich. Ernst Barlach Werkverzeichnis (Hamburg: E. Hauswedell, 1958-1971). Laur, Elisabeth. Ernst Barlach die Druckgraphik , in: Ernst Barlach sämtliche Werke , vol. 10 Werkverzeichnis I (Leipzig: E. A. Seemann, c2001).

box 22

[ Schreibender Prophet (Johannes auf Patmos)], 159 (Schult); 62 (Laur) 1919

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Lewis, R. E.

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: woodcut; printed in black ink on thin ribbed Japan paper. Dimensions: image 27.7 x 35.9 cm, sheet 40 x 53.3 cm. Signatures: signed by Ernst Barlach in pencil in lower right; inscribed by unknown hand "5 Druck den 9/4 20." State: proof dated 9 April 1920, before the edition of 100. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Raymond E. Lewis collection, San Rafael, California. References: Schult 159; Laur 62; this proof not listed in Schult and Laur. Recto: inscribed in pencil "Probe" in lower left of sheet; inscribed in pencil "7286" in lower margin of sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from Schult.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Woodcuts (prints) -- Germany -- 20th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

box 22

[ Selbstbildnis V], 297 (Schult); 93 (Laur) circa 1945

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Scope and Contents

Technique: transfer lithograph from a lost drawing; printed in black ink on stiff white paper. Dimensions: image 40.5 x 32.5 cm, sheet 53 x 40 cm. Signatures: signed in stone "E Barlach" in lower right. State: only state. Edition: unknown. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: Schult 297; Laur 93. Recto: inscribed in pencil "Schult, Selbstbildnis V, 297" in lower left of sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "Coll. Dr. Richard A. Simms" within banner. Lugt: 4395. Note: this print was executed posthumously approximately in 1945 probably by Siegfried Pülschen of Lübeck from a drawing on transfer paper, which Barlach discarded in 1928; before printing, the drawing was retouched and the signature in stone was added. Note: title from Schult.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Lithographs -- Germany -- 20th century

Transfer lithographs -- Germany -- 20th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 20th century

Emma Bormann, circa 1928

Arrangement

With a reference to the catalogue raisonné by Andreas Johns, The art of Emma Bormann (Riverside, California: Ariadne Press, 2016).

box 22

Königsberg Lastadie or [ Königsberg, Hundegatt], 112 (Johns) circa 1928

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: linocut, 5 colors; printed on ribbed white Japan paper. Dimensions: image 30.2 x 25 cm, sheet 43 x 31 cm. Signatures: signed by Emma Bormann in pencil in lower right; inscribed "Königsberg Lastadie" and numbered in lower left. State: state unknown. Edition: 47/300. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: Johns 112. Recto: marked in pencil "1504" in lower right corner of sheet. Note: title from artist's inscription on print. Note: some impressions are titled by the artist Königsberg, Hundegatt (Johns 112).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Königsberg (Germany)

Linocuts (prints) -- Austria -- 20th century

Prints (visual works) -- Austria -- 20th century

Lovis Corinth, 1894-circa 1920

box 22

[ Joseph deutet dem Pharao die Träume], 5,V.III (Schwarz) 1894

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Stinnes, Heinrich, 1867-1932

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Part of: print 5 from the cycle Tragikomödien. Technique: etching, drypoint, and soft-ground; printed in black ink on copperplate paper. Dimensions: plate mark 34.4 x 42.3 cm, sheet 44 x 50 cm. Signatures: signed by Lovis Corinth in pencil in lower right and inscribed in lower left "Joseph deutet die Träume dem Pharao"; signed in plate with initials "L C" and dated 1894. State: Schwarz state III. Edition: proof before the edition of 1920. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Heinrich Stinnes collection, Cologne. References: Schwarz 5, V. Recto: two collector's wet stamps, "RSA" within circle in blue ink and initials "H S" in red ink; inscribed in pencil [illegible] with date 1914; marked in pencil "Schw. 5 V; I. Zus." Verso: inscribed in pencil "Frühdruck! / Corinth 81/32"; "E 82-24/5"; inscribed in pencil "Joseph Träume deutend." Lugt: 4396; 1376a. Note: title from Schwarz.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Drypoints (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Soft-ground etchings (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Joseph , (Son of Jacob)

box 22

[ Alexander und Diogenes], 5,VI.II (Schwarz) 1894

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Part of: print 6 from the cycle Tragikomödien. Technique: etching; printed in black ink on thin ribbed Japan paper. Dimensions: plate mark 34.8 x 42.3 cm, sheet 46 x 51.5 cm. Signatures: signed by Lovis Corinth in pencil in lower right and inscribed "Probedruck" in lower left; signed in plate with initials "L C" and dated 1894. State: Schwarz state II. Edition: unnumbered edition of 25 copies on Japan paper. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: Schwarz 5, VI. Recto: number 6 inscribed in pencil in the lower left of sheet. Verso: collector's wet stamp "RSA" within circle; marked in pencil "5x6," "F 76-199." Lugt: 4396. Note: title from Schwarz.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

Diogenes, -approximately 323 B.C.

box 22

[ Schlussblatt], 5,IX (Schwarz) 1894

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Creator: Stinnes, Heinrich, 1867-1932

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Part of: print 9 from the cycle Tragikomödien. Technique: etching; printed in black ink on copperplate paper. Dimensions: platemark 21 x 34.9 cm, sheet 44 x 59 cm. Signatures: signed by Lovis Corinth in pencil in lower right and inscribed "No 6 Schlussblatt" in lower left. State: states not listed in Schwarz. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles; Heinrich Stinnes collection, Cologne. References: Schwarz 5, IX. Recto: collector's wet stamp initials "H S" in red ink; inscribed in pencil "AvR / 1913"; "Schwr.5.IX"; "Tragikomödien / IX." Schlussblatt. Verso: Lugt: 1376a. Note: title from Schwarz.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Etchings (prints) -- Germany -- 19th century

Prints (visual works) -- Germany -- 19th century

box 22

[ Entführung], 7.I (Schwarz) 1894

Creator: Simms, Richard A., Dr.

Physical Description: 1 print

Scope and Contents

Technique: etching with drypoint; printed in brown ink on stiff white paper with spots; reworked in pencil. Dimensions: plate mark 14.8 x 16.6 cm, sheet 21.7 x 28.8 cm. Signatures: signed by Lovis Corinth in pencil in lower right. State: Schwarz state I. Edition: proof. Provenance: Dr. Richard A. Simms collection, Los Angeles. References: Schwarz, 7. Recto: inscribed in pencil "I. Probedruck 1894"; collectors wet stamp "RSA" within circle; marked in pencil "120, 726" in the lower right corner of sheet. Verso: several sketches in pencil; marked in pencil "178" within circle, "247" within circle, and another mark in pencil. Lugt: 4396. Note: title from Schwarz.