Fritz Schwimbeck
"Im Schnee" ["In the Snow"]
etching on handmade imperial "japan" paper ["auf kaiserlichem Handjapan"]
1918
20 x 14 cm
signed in pencil lower right: "F. Schwimbeck"
numbered in pencil lower left: "6" [number 6 of a deluxe edition of 25 on handmade imperial "japan" paper ("auf kaiserlichem Handjapan")]
The Daulton Collection
This is Plate 8 from a cycle of eight etchings on the theme of a strange house. The portfolio, entitled "Phantasien über ein altes Haus" ["Fantasies on an Old House"], was published in Munich in 1918 with text by Hans Ludwig Held. The portfolio was published in an edition of 150 (including a deluxe printing of 25 on handmade imperial japan paper). The Daulton Collection owns a copy the entire portfolio of eight etchings as published in the deluxe printing, example number 21, as well as Schwimbeck's own studio portfolio of proof impressions, an extraordinary and unique set.
The Daulton Collection's studio-proof impression of Plate 4, "Auflösung" ["Disintegration"], has been published as the cover illustration of an anthology of haunted-house stories entitled Crooked Houses, ed. Mark Beech (UK: Egaeus Press, 2020). Etchings from the Daulton Collection's studio portfolio were also used in 2021 to decorate the cover and endpaper of the second printing of Crooked Houses.
