Joseph Uhl

Askese (Asceticism)

1916

pencil drawing

 

Joseph Uhl (New York 1877-1945 Bergen Traunstein)

"Askese" ["Asceticism"]

1916

pencil drawing, mounted on carrier cardboard

23,5 x 16,5 cm

signed and dated lower right: "JosUhl 1916."

inscribed below left: "ASKESE Original"


Original drawing for the etching of the same name (100 copies) published around 1920 - nun as a standing female nude with a wreath of thorns around her hips and hands clawed into her breasts.



 

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