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Rudolf Köselitz, Sleeping Hermit and Dwarves Dwarves frolicking and playing tricks on a sleeping elderly gentleman with a beard and monk's habit, mixed media (graphite, India ink and opaque white) on light cardboard, grid, signed and dated "Köselitz 1884" lower right, probably an illustration template, trace of folding, blackened on the reverse, mounted under passepartout, sheet dimensions approx. 32 x 26 cm. Artist info: German painter and draughtsman. Painter and draughtsman (1861 Annaberg - 1948 Munich), 1877-81 studied at the art academy in Leipzig, 1881 travelled to Venice, 1881-86 studied at the academy in Munich under Otto Seitz, Gyula Benczur and Alexander Strähuber, from 1886 based in Dresden and worked as an illustrator, 1900 moved to Munich, from 1901 represented at all major art exhibitions in the Glaspalast, in the same year, the painting "Inneres eines Hammerwerkes" (Frohnauer Hammer bei Annaberg) by Rudolf Köselitz was presented in the Nationalgalerie Berlin alongside the painting "Eisenwalzwerk" by Adolph von Menzel, 1904 founding member of the Verein Münchner Aquarellisten, 1910 moved to the Munich suburb of Altfreimann, from the mid-1930s increasing impoverishment, source: Thieme-Becker, Matrikel der Münchner Akademie, Peter Rochhaus "Kurz vor dem Vergessen - Zu Leben und Werk des Malers und Illustrators Rudolf Köselitz" and Wikipedia.

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Rudolf Köselitz, Sleeping Hermit and Dwarves Dwarves frolicking and playing tricks on a sleeping elderly gentleman with a beard and monk's habit, mixed media (graphite, India ink and opaque white) on light cardboard, grid, signed and dated "Köselitz 1884" lower right, probably an illustration template, trace of folding, blackened on the reverse, mounted under passepartout, sheet dimensions approx. 32 x 26 cm. Artist info: German painter and draughtsman. Painter and draughtsman (1861 Annaberg - 1948 Munich), 1877-81 studied at the art academy in Leipzig, 1881 travelled to Venice, 1881-86 studied at the academy in Munich under Otto Seitz, Gyula Benczur and Alexander Strähuber, from 1886 based in Dresden and worked as an illustrator, 1900 moved to Munich, from 1901 represented at all major art exhibitions in the Glaspalast, in the same year, the painting "Inneres eines Hammerwerkes" (Frohnauer Hammer bei Annaberg) by Rudolf Köselitz was presented in the Nationalgalerie Berlin alongside the painting "Eisenwalzwerk" by Adolph von Menzel, 1904 founding member of the Verein Münchner Aquarellisten, 1910 moved to the Munich suburb of Altfreimann, from the mid-1930s increasing impoverishment, source: Thieme-Becker, Matrikel der Münchner Akademie, Peter Rochhaus "Kurz vor dem Vergessen - Zu Leben und Werk des Malers und Illustrators Rudolf Köselitz" and Wikipedia.

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