3337 - Balzer, Ferdinand

Balzer, Ferdinand (1872 Frankfurt am Main – 1916). 2 sketchbooks. One sketchbook containing 21 pages of pencil drawings, including one page with pencil and pen-and-ink drawings, as well as 5 pages Cash book documenting previous sales of drawings and postcards, 1895. Binder approx. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Numerous blank pages. The drawings are simple sketches of people in everyday situations. The other sketchbook contains 78 pasted-in sheets. Pencil and pen-and-ink drawings on tracing paper, a few of which are colored, 1899. Various formats. Among the illustrations are, among other things, postcard designs, Easter scenes with children and anthropomorphized rabbits, depictions of children, as well as several sheets featuring a dance of death accompanied by the Grim Reaper.