Fritz Schwimbeck (1889-1972)
"Das Opfer" ["The Offering" or "The Sacrifice"]
1915
pen and black ink on firm wove paper
40,9 x 29,4 cm
Tha Daulton Collection
in black pen lower left, signed and dated: "F. Schwimbeck [19]15"
also inscribed in pencil on right: "Prof. Fritz Schwimbeck"
verso upper left inscribed in black pen "(Umgezeichnet [redrawn] April 1915)" as well as titled in pencil (by the artist?) "Das Opfer"
This sheet is the highly-finished preparatory drawing for plate V of Schwimbeck's portfolio of etchings "Werden und Vergehen" ["Creation and Death," also known as "Becoming and Passing Away"], published in 1919 by the Munich publishing house Parcus & Co.
The Daulton Collection owns finished preparatory drawings for five of the plates of that portfolio.
The Daulton Collection owns another, smaller and apparently earlier, preparatory drawing for "Das Opfer":
