ETCHING Hand Signed ~ GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST ~ dated 1915 Listed Artist WILD TIGER

Description: A wonderful German Expressionist animalier etching by Expressionist artist Paul Kleinschmidt (1883-1948). The etching dates to 1915 and is depiction of a wide eyed tiger in repose. Etching is hand signed in pencil by the artist and marked Probedruck III indicating it is an artist's proof, probably an early state. The image measures 5 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, sheet size is approx. 9 3/4 x 11 inches with full original margins. It is printed in black ink on wove paper, has mild and even age toning and vestiges of gummed paper tape on reverse corners, otherwise excellent condition, does not appear to have ever been framed or matted. This etching is in the permanent collection of the Fogg Art Museum; Harvard University: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/258398 Paul Kleinschmidt (1883-1948) was a German Expressionist painter and printmaker. He studied at the Berlin Art Academy from 1902, here he met Lovis Corinth, whose work impressed him greatly. In 1904 he moved on to the Munich Art Academy, where he also devoted himself to printmaking, studying under Peter Halm and Heinrich von Zügel. After finishing his studies, Kleinschmidt worked in Berlin as a painter and graphic artist and exhibited at the 'Sezession' shows in 1908 and 1911. He was called up for military service in 1914, but was released one year later after being poisoned by gas. In 1915 he began earning a living with odd jobs as a technical draughtsman and a drawing teacher. Many of his most important etchings and lithographs were produced during this period. They were exhibited in 1923 in his first one-man exhibition organised by the publishing company Euphorion and in 1925 at F. Gurlitt in Berlin. In 1927 Kleinschmidt first met the New York art collector Erich Cohn who later became his sponsor and enabled him to exhibit his work at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1931. The artist moved from Berlin to Southern Germany in the early 1930s, here he and his family soon suffered under the political repression of the National Socialists who eventually declared him a "degenerate artist". The Nazis forced Kleinschmidt to stop painting in 1943 and all of his possessions were destroyed in a bombing raid in 1945. His his health then began a severe decline from which he would never recover.

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