Rudolf Friedrich Wasmann
Hamburg 1805 - 1886 Merano
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Seated Young Tyrolean, 1840/41
Black chalk, heightened in white on blue paper
Verso: Hand Studies, black chalk
36 x 52,5 cm
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, South Tyrol
Karl & Faber, Munich, 17-11-1959, lot 501
Private Collection, Germany, acquired at the above
This exceptional drawing belonged to a group of studies owned by a South Tyrolean family in Bolzano, where Wasmann spent most of his time during his second stay in South Tyrol in 1840/41 (see catalogue entry Karl and Faber 1959). Also see Bernt Grönvolt, Friedrich Wasmann. Ein deutsches Künstlerleben von ihm selbst geschildert, Leipzig 1915, p. 173.
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