Die moralische Schwanenbeschwörung. 1956.
Colored pencil drawing.
Signed and dated lower right, titled lower left. Monogrammed and dated on the reverse. On smooth cardboard. 49 x 70.8 cm (19.2 x 27.8 in), size of sheet. [EH].

• Until the mid-1950s, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern drew almost exclusively with pencil, and only began using colored crayons thereafter.
• Shown at the Schröder-Sonnenstern retrospective at the Kestner Gesellschaft in 1973.
• The mythology of his imagery is as complex as his life was diverse.

PROVENANCE: Carl Laszlo Collection, Basel.
From a Swiss collection.

EXHIBITION: Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hanover, June 8 - July 1, 1973, cat. no. 124 (with a label and the catalog entry attached to the reverse).
Wundersame Welten. Von René Magritte bis Daniel Richter, Museum im Kleihues-Bau, Kornwestheim, May 13 - September 24, 2023.