Woodcut on tracing paper, 30 x 21.5 cm (block), 32.5 x 26 cm (sheet). Monogrammed in ink, dated and with dedication (to Käthe Schröder-Reissmann) "Dankbar meiner Käthe". Exceedingly rare proof. Reference: Glöckner 16. Provenance: Formerly Schröder-Reissmann Collection, Galerie Glöckner Cologne, private collection North Rhine-Westphalia
Before Franz Wilhelm Seiwert (1894-1933) became one of the leading figures of the so-called "Gruppe progressiver Künstler" in Cologne (where he edited the magazine "a bis z" until 1933), he produced his first woodcuts entirely in the style of Expressionism, of which the present woodcut is a particularly striking example, even if it remained unknown to Bohnen (Franz W. Seiwert - Leben und Werk, Cologne 1978).
