Otto Greiner (Leipzig 1869 - 1916 Munich)

Studies for the lost painting "Huldigung an die Schönheit" ["Homage to Beauty"]

circa 1890

red and black chalk on paper
45,5 x 33 cm

signed and inscribed lower right and center: "Greiner Otto" and "dunkelgrüner Grund mit Rot Gelb und Weiß" ["dark green background with red yellow and white"]

verso with sketches of trees and bushes

in passepartout, mounted on left margin with adhesive strips

The Daulton Collection

Publication History of this Drawing:

Emanuele Bardazzi, Sogni d'Arcadia / Arkadische Traümerei: Sigmund Lipinsky e gli ultimi tedeschi-romani [Dreams of Arcadia: Sigmund Lipinsky and the last German-Romans] (Florence: Edizioni Polistampa / Leonardo Libri, 2025), illustrated at fig. 35, pg. 43 (as "Studio di figure, 1892 circa").

Discussion:

The Daulton Collection has discovered that this drawing is a rare sheet of studies for Greiner's painting "Huldigung an die Schönheit" ["Homage to Beauty"], circa 1890, presumed to be lost. A reproduction of the painting can be found in Julius Vogel, Otto Greiner (Bielefeld and Leipzig: Belhagen, 1925), after pg. 8, Abb. [ill.] 14.

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