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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dinge by Gustav Wolf. Print with bird creature.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dinge by Gustav Wolf. Print with city.
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Dinge by Gustav Wolf. Print with pot headed creature.
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Gustav Wolf

Dinge, (c. 1930)
(Germany)
All prints signed by Wolf.
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Gustav Wolf, Dinge, (c. 1930)
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Dinge by Gustav Wolf. Print with bird creature.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Dinge by Gustav Wolf. Print with city.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Dinge by Gustav Wolf. Print with pot headed creature.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Dinge by Gustav Wolf. Print with clock creatures.
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 5 ) Dinge by Gustav Wolf. Print with creature with extending eyes.
Twenty-two wood-engraved prints, loose. The prints are held in a custom chemise and dropback box, on the spine of which is gilt titling and the claim that the collection went...
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Twenty-two wood-engraved prints, loose. The prints are held in a custom chemise and dropback box, on the spine of which is gilt titling and the claim that the collection went unpublished, a statement corroborated by von Borries' 1982 catalog raisonné. The prints, produced in a unknown number of copies, were meant for an unrealized edition, the title of which, "Dinge," was decided by Wolf; von Borries cites a title page in his copy. That copy also had two more prints for a total of twenty-five, as well as a colophon. The edition, and perhaps even the ability to produce full suites of proof images, was certainly stunted by the nascent rise of the far right in Germany, which induced Wolf to flee and abandon many of his projects. The set, in any state of completion, is a remarkable survival; the Nazi's destroyed much of Wolfe's "degenerate" art. Each print is an extraordinary, grotesque example of Wolf's occult expressionism, as much an interrogation of the spirituality of the artist as a headlong invocation of the bizarre and surreal. Lacking three prints, plus title page and colophon. Fine.
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