Rudolf Jettmar (1869 Zawodzie bei Krakau - Wien 1939)

"Die Sirenen" ["The Sirens"]

1896

pen and ink with wash and watercolor on wove paper, laid down on backing cardboard

approx. 31 x 21 cm (backing cardboard approx. 38 x 29 cm)

signed and dated lower right:  Rudolf Jettmar 96

Provenance:

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

Exhibition History:

1969/70      Rudolf Jettmar, Gedächtnisausstellung des graphischen Werks aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstags und des 30. Todestages des Künstlers, Wiener Secession, Wien [Memorial exhibition of the graphic work on the occasion of the 100th birthday and the 30th anniversary of the artist's death, Vienna Secession, Vienna]

This drawing is the predicate for Jettmar's etching of the same name.  See:  Hofstätter catalogue raisonne, Rw 72.