FRÜHZEIT des Modernen Holzschnitts
This winter print was exhibited in the winter of 2014-15 in Städistche Wessenberg-Gallerie in Konstanz in an exhibition showing 60 winter woodblock prints from the collection of Munich collector Felix Häberle (1941-1921). Sadly there was no catalogue (inquired). Its title "Baum über ein Bach in verschneiter Landschaft" probably was an educated guess. Considering the reputation of collector "Rechtsanwalt" Haberlé the attribution to Hans Schütz (Schüz) (1883-1922) and the date (1906) can be trusted and was read probably written underneath.
Another copy of this exceptional print was never seen before or since (at least not by me.....).
1906
places Hans Schütz, who before today was never described as a pioneering "Holzschnitt" artist, in the heart of the birth of Modern Printmaking and among his colleagues who were active in this field: Kandinsky, Thiemann, Klemm, Orlik, Neumann, Berndt.
Than, very recently another copy emerged as:
"In den Isargauen bei Garching"
Orig.- Farbholzschnitt von Hans Schütz.
Freisinger Künstlerpresse W. Bode
Isargauen is a park along river Isar in the heart of Munich. Walter Bode (1934-2022) was the founder of a bibliophile printing house in town of Freising. Considering the reputation of Walter Bode as a printer and his annotation it may have been printed from the original blocks although there is no mentioning of "Nachlass" (posthumously). Sadly both Häberle and Bode can no longer be consulted.
Hans Schütz married Else, an artist, the daughter of pioneering Swiss health tourism pioneer and sanatorium founder in Arosa: Dr. Otto Herwig. Schütz died, 39 years old of pneumonia in the 1922 flu pandemic himself a "Kurort" patient.
Read more about Hans Bode, Otto and Else Herwig and Hans Schütz in the accompanying my collection book of biographies.
All further information is very welcomed.
