"Idyll of the Sea" Just image and matt -- is disturbing and stunning, needs proper framing. -- plate size approx. 6 3/8 × 11 13/16 in
As per wikipedia: Hecht was born in Ansbach, Bavaria. He studied the art of wood engraving with the printmaker Döring in Nuremberg from 1857 to 1859, continued his education in larger studios in Leipzig, Berlin and Stuttgart, and in 1868 opened his own studio in Munich. In 1885 he was called to Vienna to head the newly founded xylographic department of the k.u.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei (Imperial and Royal State Printing Office). At the same time, he was made professor for wood engraving at the School for Applied Arts (Kunstgewerbeschule), now the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (University of Applied Arts Vienna). He retired to Graz, then to Munich, and in 1912 to Linz, where he died.
He completed etchings of works by Schwind, Böcklin, Lenbach, Rottmann, Schleich, van Dyck und Jan van Schorel – works of art in their own right - and produced two original etchings (Emperor Wilhelm I and King Ludwig of Bavaria in the regalia of the Order of St. George, the latter in an unusual format size). He also demonstrated exceptional skills in composition techniques. Hecht made wood engravings for Grimms' Fairy Tales, Goethe's Faust (after Alexander von Liezen-Mayer),[2] Schiller's Song of the Bell (also after Alexander von Liezen-Mayer) and for Heinrich von Kleist's The Broken Jug (after Menzel).
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SKU: SKU237
$115.00Price
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