3938 - Carl Josef Bauer, “Indignation”

Carl Josef Bauer, “Indignation” An elegantly dressed couple beneath lanterns at a summer party; original sketch for an illustration, published in the “Fliegende Blätter” No. 4801 on 5 August 1937, page 88; the illustration is signed here and on page 87: ‘Indignation: “It’s outrageous to ring me out of bed at eight o’clock in the morning - I’d only just gone to bed!” … “Are you really angry with me, Lotte? I don’t believe you!”’ - “What - you don’t believe me?””, mixed media (gouache and watercolour) on card, signed indistinctly in the bottom right-hand corner, obscured by the passe-partout; on the reverse side of the magazine page, included as a black-and-white copy, it is labelled “Drawing by C. J. Bauer”, beautifully framed behind glass and a passe-partout, with a label on the passe-partout providing information about the artwork; passe-partout dimensions approx. 34.5 x 25.5 cm. Artist information: also known as Karl Joseph Bauer, German painter, illustrator and graphic artist (1895 or 1897, Munich - 1964 or 1989, Munich), studied at the Munich Academy under Angelo Jank from 1913, gained fame for his erotic depictions of women, created around 300 illustrations for the Munich magazine *Fliegende Blätter* in the 1920s and 1930s, exhibited at the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich in 1943 and 1944, he served as president of the Allotria Artists’ Society for ten years and was active in Munich; source: Dressler and the internet.