Ten signed lithographs - Karl Caspar (1879-1956)- Passion ten lithographs edition number 48
\Artist: Ten signed lithographs - Karl Caspar (1879-1956)
Technique: Lithograph\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 46_40_46_cm
From 1922 to 1937 Caspar was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His works were exhibited in the Degenerate Art Exhibition. Thereafter, his Christianity-inspired paintings and drawings, influenced equally by Impressionism and Expressionism, were removed from German museums and public collections and/or destroyed, and he was forced to retire from his teaching position. That same year (some sources say the year was 1944, after his Munich house was destroyed in a bombing raid) , due to Nazi hostility, he settled with his family in Brannenburg, where he is buried. translation Content of lithographs: Content - Mount of Olives, Christ and John, Bethesda, Whipping, Mockery, Ecce Homo, carrying the cross,Crucifixion, Pieta, Resurrection. There were 132 prints of Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn. Munich produced under the artist's supervision and signed by him. Simple edition: No. 1--120 preferred edition in parchment. Portfolio No. 1-XII on Japanese paper laid with the artist's hand drawing. The stones were sanded after when printed, this copy is numbered 48
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\Artist: Ten signed lithographs - Karl Caspar (1879-1956)
Technique: Lithograph\Signature: Hand signed\Dimensions: 46_40_46_cm
From 1922 to 1937 Caspar was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His works were exhibited in the Degenerate Art Exhibition. Thereafter, his Christianity-inspired paintings and drawings, influenced equally by Impressionism and Expressionism, were removed from German museums and public collections and/or destroyed, and he was forced to retire from his teaching position. That same year (some sources say the year was 1944, after his Munich house was destroyed in a bombing raid) , due to Nazi hostility, he settled with his family in Brannenburg, where he is buried. translation Content of lithographs: Content - Mount of Olives, Christ and John, Bethesda, Whipping, Mockery, Ecce Homo, carrying the cross,Crucifixion, Pieta, Resurrection. There were 132 prints of Dr. C. Wolf & Sohn. Munich produced under the artist's supervision and signed by him. Simple edition: No. 1--120 preferred edition in parchment. Portfolio No. 1-XII on Japanese paper laid with the artist's hand drawing. The stones were sanded after when printed, this copy is numbered 48