Moving Etching Wilm 1887-1953 Pair Magdeburg

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Kurt Franz Käte and Wolfgang Schmidt-Ramsin Magdeburg Bötticherstr. 27. Couple (back half-figures), looking at the old town of Magdeburg, below carriage with household items and child in the pram.
Wilm, Hubert (1887-1953):
1917. 92 x 104 mm. Etching.
Language: German
Order number: 15769
Comments: * Thieme-Becker 36; Vollmer 5 - hand signed. Signed and dated in the print. Wilm attended the arts and crafts schools in Munich and Paris, joined the 'Jugend' in 1908 and worked as a graphic artist. He has created around 227 bookplates, and his decorative talent has been praised again and again. In 1924 he began to study art history and received his doctorate in 1928 with a thesis on Gothic clay sculptures. In 1931 he ended his artistic activity and worked exclusively as a journalist. Blum (2007, p. 4) writes: "Today, Dr. Hubert Wilm's bookplates are among the best works at the beginning of the 20th century. Century and are accordingly sought-after collector's items. "- Small assembly remains on the back.
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Kurt Franz Käte and Wolfgang Schmidt-Ramsin Magdeburg Bötticherstr. 27. Couple (back half-figures), looking at the old town of Magdeburg, below carriage with household items and child in the pram. Comments: * Thieme-Becker 36; Vollmer 5 - hand signed. Signed and dated in the print. Wilm attended the arts and crafts schools in Munich and Paris, joined the 'Jugend' in 1908 and worked as a graphic artist. He has created around 227 bookplates, and his decorative talent has been praised again and again. In 1924 he began to study art history and received his doctorate in 1928 with a thesis on Gothic clay sculptures. In 1931 he ended his artistic activity and worked exclusively as a journalist. Blum (2007, p. 4) writes: "Today, Dr. Hubert Wilm's bookplates are among the best works at the beginni