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A striking black-and-white woodcut by Hans Himmelheber, combining bold, angular linework with the tonal contrasts characteristic of the German Expressionist tradition. Himmelheber, best known as an ethnologist and scholar of African art, produced a number of prints in the 1930s before devoting much of his later career to field research. This work features his distinctive attention to texture and spatial depth, likely inspired by the interplay of architecture and shadow.
Condition: Overall very good for age, light toning to paper, minor foxing in margins, framed under glass.
Comparable woodblock prints by Himmelheber from this period have appeared at European auctions and in specialist print collections, with signed examples being increasingly sought after by collectors of early 20th-century German graphic art.
A striking black-and-white woodcut by Hans Himmelheber, combining bold, angular linework with the tonal contrasts characteristic of the German Expressionist tradition. Himmelheber, best known as an ethnologist and scholar of African art, produced a number of prints in the 1930s before devoting much of his later career to field research. This work features his distinctive attention to texture and spatial depth, likely inspired by the interplay of architecture and shadow.
Condition: Overall very good for age, light toning to paper, minor foxing in margins, framed under glass.
Comparable woodblock prints by Himmelheber from this period have appeared at European auctions and in specialist print collections, with signed examples being increasingly sought after by collectors of early 20th-century German graphic art.