Gabriel von Max
Faust-Illustrationen [Illustrations of Faust]
1880
portfolio of ten wood engravings by Wilhelm Hecht, after drawings by Gabriel von Max
plate dimensions: 51,2 x 40 cm (20 3/16 x 15 3/4 in.) or 40 x 51,2 cm (15 3/4 x 20 3/16 in.)
shown above is a detail of Plate 7
Extremely rare. There has only been one copy on the market since 2008.
Exhibition History (this impression):
"Gabriel von Max: Be-tailed Cousins and Phantasms of the Soul," Frye Art Museum, Seattle, July 9-Oct. 30, 2011
Publication History (this impression):
Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, ed., Gabriel von Max (Seattle: Frye Art Museum, 2011), ills. 1, 26-35, pgs. 2-3 (frontispiece) and 46.
General References:
Margaret Mary Richter, Gabriel Max: The Artist, The Darwinist and The Spiritualist, PhD dissertation, New York University, 1998 (Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1998), at pgs. 109-117 (discussing von Max's Faust portfolio).
Helena Pereña, "Bilder zu Goethes Faust," in Karin Althaus and Helmut Friedel, Gabriel von Max, Malerstar, Darwinist, Spiritist (München: Hirmer Verlag, 2010), at pp. 64-75.
