Rudolf Schlichter - Liebende

Rudolf Schlichter

Liebende
1930/1931

Pencil drawing on fine drawing paper 59.2 x 44 cm Framed under glass. Signed 'R. Schlichter' in pencil lower right, titled 'Liebende' lower left. - Slightly browned in frame of mat with light-stain; smaller marginal defects closed professionally.

This drawing belongs to a total of 10 illustrations for Schlichter's autobiographic novel "Zwischenwelt. Ein Intermezzo", published in Berlin in 1931. It is the final scene of the dramatic love story between the artist and his wife Speedy. Here, after a furious pang of jealousy, Schlichter ruefully comes back to his wife and is consoled by her.

Provenance

Formerly Colelction Wolf Uecker, estate

Literature

Dirk Heißerer (ed.), Rudolf Schlichter: Zwischenwelt. Ein Intermezzo. Reprint der Erstausgabe Berlin 1931, Berlin 1994, with illus. after p. 98

Exhibitions

New York/Cambridge/Stuttgart 1986 (Guggenheim Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum/Staatsgalerie), German Realist Drawings and Watercolours, cat. no. 108 (labels on frame backing card); Tübingen/Wuppertal/Munich 1997/1998 (Kunsthalle/Von der Heydt-Museum/Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus), Rudolf Schlichter. Gemälde, Aquarelle, Zeichnungen, cat. no. 128 with full-page illus.