The Rake's Family. 1995.
The portfolio comprising 12 Lithograph in colors, title and preface, published by Quensen/Steinmann, Lamspringe 1995.
Geuer & Breckner 1995.1.1 - 1995.1.12. Each signed and numbered 12/23. Each titled and some inscribed on the stone. Additionally numbered on title. Splendid hand impressions on wove paper by Hahnemühle (without watermarks). Up to 116 x 82 cm (45,6 x 32,2 in). Sheet: each 140 x 100 cm (55,1 x 39,3 in).
Printed by Quensen, Lamspringe (each with blindstamp). Loose sheets in orig. plexiglass case. The complete set.

For an new staging of Igor Stravinsky's opera "The Rake's Progress" at the Salzburg Festival, Immendorf made the costumes as well as the stage design in 1994. So it was that Immendorff was artistically occupied with an opera that, in return, was based on a visual model: the series of paintings and copper engravings by the English painter William Hogarth. Between 1733 and 1735 he created numerous illustrations on the fall of Tom Rakewell, the spendthrift son and heir of a rich merchant, who wasted his money in London and eventually ended up in a lunatic asylum. Immendorff's occupation with the Stravinsky opera and the illustrations of vice and fugacity by William Hogarth did not only find its artistic expression in the unique Salzburg stage design, but also in compacted and lasting form in the series "The Rake's Family". The twelve large-size lithographs are proof of Immendorff's artistic virtuosity and particular talent for the reception and reinterpretation of historic motifs and themes. Symbols of vice, fugacity and art have been worked up by Immendorff to striking documents of human and artist self-reflection. [JS].