5385 - Uhl, Joseph

Uhl, Joseph "Peasant Funeral." Etching and aquatint on Similijapan. 30 x 28.5 cm. Signed, numbered “30,” and titled in the artist’s own hand in the lower left corner; signed by the publisher “Heinr. Wetteroth München gdr” in the white margin below the image. Before 1911. See Eugen Kalkschmidt, “Joseph Uhl. A New Etcher,” in: Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst, 1911, p. 107. Arthur Dobsky described Uhl’s idyllic landscape as “one of his most beautiful prints, both technically and in terms of content” (A. Dobsky: “Joseph Uhl,” in: Die Graphischen Künste, 36, 1913, pp. 65–71, here p. 66). In only a few of the artist’s works does the landscape near Bergen take center stage as much as it does here. The actual event—the depiction of a funeral—is only discernible at second glance. Equally unique is the artist’s exploration and the rich variety in his rendering of different natural surfaces using the technical possibilities of etching. A magnificent print with a wide margin, featuring the full artist’s margin on the right and bottom. Scattered foxing; the sheet edges are slightly creased and lightly bumped; a short crease mark in the upper left corner; otherwise very beautifully and authentically preserved. Rare. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog. - Please ask for condition reports for individual lots, as the condition is usually not mentioned in the catalog.