Rudolf Jettmar

Die Hölle [Hell],

1896,

ink, wash, and pencil on paper

 

 

Rudolf Jettmar


Die Hölle (Der Teufel mit dem Bratspieß) 

[Hell (The Devil with a roasting fork or skewer)]


1896


ink pen and wash and pencil on wove paper, pieced together from two sheets and mounted on a cardboard mat

26 x 59 cm (mat c. 39.5 x 68 cm)


signed upper left:  "Rudolf Jettmar"

inscribed and dated upper left: "Firenze 96"


The Daulton Collection



Provenance:


Estate of the artist; thence by descent in his family in Baden-Württemberg



Publication History:


Catalogue Raisonne: Hofstätter Z 46 (without illustration)


Ulrike Kastler, Rudolf Jettmar – zwischen Klassizismus und Moderne: Symbolistische Neuprägungen der Antike im Zyklus Kain (1919/1920) (Vienna: University of Vienna, 2025), Master's Thesis, detail illustrated at pg. 162, Abb. 116.



detail showing the Devil:
The Daulton Collection also owns an algraphy based upon this drawing:

Rudolf Jettmar


Die Hölle (Der Teufel mit dem Bratspieß) 

[Hell (The Devil with a roasting fork or skewer)]


1896


algraphy on strong paper

14,1 x 32,3 cm (image); 23,5 x 39 cm (sheet)


signed and dated lower left


The Daulton Collection


condition: spotted, browned, tear on right edge, crease.



Provenance:


Estate of the artist; thence by descent in his family in Baden-Württemberg

Contact:
The Daulton Collection
thedaultoncollection@outlook.com