Joseph Uhl (1877-1945)
"Unschuld" ["Innocence"]
etching on Japan paper
plate 29,9 x 21,4 cm; sheet 57,5 x 41,7 cm
signed in pencil lower right: "Joseph Uhl"
numbered in pencil lower left: "33."
signed by the printer in pencil lower left along the border of the image: "Heinr. Wetteroth München gdr." ["Heinrich Wetteroth Munich printed"]
titled, apparently by another hand, in pencil lower left corner: "Unschuld"
with six lines of poetry by Friedrich Hebbel (1813-1863), from the poem "Auf ein schlummerndes Kind " ["To a Slumbering Child"], printed in the lower right area of the plate
The Daulton Collection
condition: slightly foxed in places; the upper margin is somewhat creased.
Uhl included a very similar, but not identical, etching in the portfolio Liebesmysterium as Plate I.
the six lines of poetry:
"Dir ist die Erde noch verschlossen,
Du hast noch keine Thrän' vergossen,
Noch ist kein Glück was du empfingst;
Wie könntest du so süss den Träumen,
Wenn du nicht noch in jenen Räumen,
Woher du Ka mest, dich ergingst?"
["The earth is still closed to you;
You have not yet shed a single tear;
Nor have you yet known any joy.
How, then, could you dream so sweetly,
Were you not still wandering within those realms
From whence you came?"]
The earth is still closed to you;
You have not yet shed a single tear;
Nor have you yet known any joy.
How, then, could you dream so sweetly,
Were you not still wandering within those realms
From whence you came?
Dir ist die Erde noch verschlossen,
Du hast noch keine Thrän vergossen,
Noch ist kein Glück was du empfingst;
Wie könntest du so süss den Träumen,
Wenn du nicht noch in jenen Räumen,
Woher du Kamest, dich ergingst?
