Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)

Nude Studies of a Boy [Aktstudien eines Knaben],

being studies for "Ehrendiplom für Zimmermeister Handwerk" ["Honorary Diploma for Master Carpenters"]

1894 

red chalk and charcoal with white heightening on paper

47.3 x 30.7 cm (18 1/2 x 12 3/8 in.)

below in pencil monogrammed "O.Gr.," dated "94," and inscribed "München" ["Munich"]

The Daulton Collection

Provenance: 

Ex Coll. Walter Bareiss (Tübingen, Germany 1919 - 2007 Stamford, Connecticut), probably acquired in or after 2003.  Bareiss was a German-American businessman, who was known for his expansive and outstanding art collection, encompassing not only modern and contemporary German art, but also modern illustrated books, African sculpture, Japanese prints, and Chinese ceramics, among other areas.

Literature:

see Julius Vogel, Otto Greiner (Leipzig: Seeman, 1903), at 29, for the fully-realized Ehrendiplom für Zimmermeister Handwerk