Arnold Topp | An Paul Scheerbart

TOPP, ARNOLD
1887 Soest - 1962 Brandenburg

Title: An Paul Scheerbart.
Date: 1919.
Technique: Watercolour, colour India ink and opaque white on watercolour cardboard.
Measurement: 28,5 x 20cm.
Notation: Signed and dated (rotated by 180â°) centre left: A. TOPP: 19.
Frame/Pedestal: Framed.

The text: "üBER DEM DUNKELGRüNEN MYRTENTOR THRONT EIN DICKER ROTER MOND" ("above the dark green myrtle gate sits enthroned a big red moon"), which the artist has placed here in the picture, is two lines from the poem "Dicker roter Mond" by Paul Scheerbart.

Provenance:
- Private collection USA

Literature:
- Enders, Rainer: Arnold Topp - Ein Lebensbild. Mit einem Werkverzeichnis von Thomas Greifeld & Rainer Enders, Weimar 2007, cat. rais. no. 19.M.3, ill.
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