Sheet 8: Loneliness, 1916

Title

Sheet 8: Loneliness

Draughtsman

• Georg Poppe

Part Number / Total

8 / 12

Period Produced

• 20th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• opaque white
• cardboard

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing
• white heightening

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• autonomous drawing

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Signiert, datiert und bezeichnet unterhalb der Darstellung (mit der Feder in Schwarz): Georg Poppe 16. // aus unsinnigen Träumen VIII / Einsamkeit.

Captions Added Later

Verso unten mittig Stempel der Städtischen Galerie, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2371c)

Watermark

• [Unechtes Wasserzeichen]

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städtische Galerie

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

© Georg Poppe

Acquisition

Acquired in 1919

Genre

• personal depiction
• animal depiction
• allegory

Primary

• 25H2316(+1) ocean floor (+ landscape with figures, staffage)
• 41A1 civic architecture; edifices; dwellings
• 59AA1(+12) Loneliness; 'Solitudine' (Ripa) (+ abstract concept represented by male figure)
• 25F6 fishes