August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)

Der Traum (The Dream)

circa 1901

etching, aquatint, and drypoint on Japan paper

trial proof

20,2 x 13,4 cm

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Exhibition History:

"Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tortured Soul," Leopold Museum, Vienna, April 16 - July 24, 2022

Publication History of this impression:

Hans-Peter Wipplinger, ed., Alfred Kubin: Confessions of a Tortured Soul (Vienna: Leopold Museum, 2022), pgs. 64 (ill.), 320.

A rare rejected plate for Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen.  This state does not appear in the published literature on Brömse and his work; and this impression may be unique.  For a much different, probably earlier, state of this rejected plate, see Gabriela Kašková, ed., Schattenseiten: August Brömse und Kathrin Brömse (Regensburg: Stiftung Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie in Regensburg, 2011), pg. 39, Kat. 27.

August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)

"Erlösung" ("Salvation")

1902

etching and aquatint in colors

trial proof

29 x 21 cm

signed in pencil lower right: "A. Brömse"

titled in pencil lower left: "Erlösung"

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This print is a unique color variation of Plate 13 from Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen.  

August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)

"Schlimme Nächte" ["Bad Nights"]

circa 1902

etching and aquatint

plate 14,8 x 19,5 cm

in pencil lower right outside the plate mark signed: "August Brömse"

in pencil lower center within the plate mark titled: "Schlimme Nächte"

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Plate 4 from Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen. in a color variation that is different than the impression in the Amsterdam Portfolio.

August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)

"Eine Tote" ("A Death")

1902

etching

24 x 42,5 cm (sheet)

signed in pencil lower right: "August Brömse"

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Plate 12 from Brömse's print cycle, Tod und Mädchen.  This impression is a signed proof of the commonly encountered version that was published as an unsigned art supplement in Die Graphischen Künste, Vol. 30, 1907, after page 106.

References:

Karel M. Kuzmany, "Jüngere österreichische Graphiker," Die Graphischen Künste, Vol. 30, 1907, pg. 110: "'Eine Tote' wird schließlich über die stygische, dunkle Flut vom Knochenmann sorglich heimgeleitet, auf dem Rücken eines schlangenähnlichen Gebildes" ["'A dead' woman is finally carefully led home over the Stygian, dark flood by the skeleton, on the back of a snake-like structure"].  

August Brömse (Czech, 1873-1925)

In den Birken [In the Birches]

circa 1900-1910

etching and aquatint in colors on paper

trial proof

11,8 x 7,8 cm (plate)

signed lower right in pencil: "A Brömse"

titled lower left in pencil: "In den Birken"

The Daulton Collection

Probably a rejected plate for Brömse's first print cycle, Tod und Mädchen.  This plate does not appear in the published literature on Brömse and his work; and this impression may be unique.  

Symbolismus

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