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Der Bücherwurm. Around 1850.
Verso: Garment study. Pencil
Pencil drawing.
Stamped with the blue Nachlass mark lower right (Lugt 2307). With very faint inscription upper right. On paper. 33,5 : 21 cm (13,1 : 8,2 in), size of sheet. Very beautiful preliminary study of the 'Bücherwurm' (Wichmann 534-541). The motif of the disconnected outsider who lives in his own world and complety devotes himself to the acquisition of knowledge is taken up by Spitzweg and characterised in a tenderly-ironic fashion in several paintings. [KR]
EXPERTISE: The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Prof. Dr. Jens Christian Jensen, Hamburg
Good overall impression. Irregularly discoloured. Verso with an old paper strip mount along the edges, recto slightly overlapping. With a small tear at the upper sheet edge.
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