1165 - Roland Anheisser, “Aus Belgien”, portfolio with 12 etchings, views of Bruges, Ghent and Nieuport

Roland Anheisser, “Aus Belgien”, portfolio with 12 etchings, views of Bruges, Ghent and Nieuport (1877 Düsseldorf – 1949 Jugenheim), etching on paper, each signed lower right, each inscribed lower left, portfolio “Aus Belgien”, cover with table of contents and the note “Vom Künstler selbst gedruckt.”, portfolio with 12 views from Belgium, including Bruges, Ghent, Brussels and Nieuport, good condition commensurate with age, three of the original 15 etchings missing, portfolio with signs of use, largest image 24.5x19 cm (HxW), overall size each 66x48 cm (HxW) Roland Anheisser (1877–1949) first studied botany and zoology in Bonn and Jena, received his doctorate under Ernst Stahl in 1899 and then worked as an assistant at botanical institutes in Basel and Darmstadt and as an illustrator of scientific works. He learned lithography and etching in Basel, followed in 1904 by training at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts under Walter Conz, Hellmut Eichrodt, Leopold von Kalckreuth and Hans Thoma. As a freelance artist he published portfolio works such as “Altschweizerische Baukunst”, “Altkölnische Baukunst” and “Flandern und Brabant”; travels took him to Italy, Belgium, Flanders and Holland. In 1918 he acquired a house with studio and copperplate printing workshop in Jugenheim an der Bergstraße. When this house burned down in December 1942, a large part of his work was lost.