Heinrich Zille, Original Drawing, 1924

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Heinrich Zille
Radeburg 1858 - 1929 Berlin

Willi kick those with the Pioto gloves, 1924

Charcoal drawing and pencil on … more Heinrich Zille
Radeburg 1858 - 1929 Berlin

Willi kick those with the Pioto gloves, 1924

Charcoal drawing and pencil on thin Japanese paper

Signed and dated lower right "H.Zille 1924"

Sheet size: 34.5 x 30 cm

Frame: 64.5 x 57.5 cm

Provenance:

Private collection Wiesbaden


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Heinrich Zille was born in Radeburg near Dresden in 1858 as the son of the watchmaker and blacksmith Johann Zille. Theodor Hosemann, a classic master of Old Berlin painting and illustration art, had a lasting influence on Zille's artistic career. Since 1877, Zille has worked in the "Photographic Society", a graphic workshop that primarily produces commercial graphics and trivial art. His first lithograph dates from the same year. The first socially critical drawings are created. Around the beginning of the 1890s, the craftsman Zille began his own serious artistic work. In addition to the continuously growing graphic work, a series of etchings on a wide variety of topics is created, which is interrupted again and again. from 1894 he took photographs in the streets of Berlin, at folk festivals and in the studios of artist friends. He himself became part of Berlin's avant-garde art scene and met, among others, Max Liebermann, August Gaul and Käthe Kollwitz. In 1901 his work was shown for the first time in the Berlin Secession's "Drawing Arts" exhibition, where he has been represented ever since. A year later he had his first solo exhibition and, supported by Liebermann, became a member of the “Berlin Secession” in 1903. Zille works primarily as an illustrator for the publication, working for “Simplicissimus”, “Lustige Blatter”, “Jugend” and “Ulk”. Numerous folders with his drawings appeared, such as the 1905 folder "Twelve Artist Prints" with photogravures based on hand drawings and etchings, which quickly made him known as one of the best German draftsmen. When he was released from the "Photographic Society" in 1907, he worked as a freelance artist from then on. His graphics, always characterized by a high level of technical skill, initially have a rather private character. It was not until 1907 that he made prints of older plates for the art trade and worked on graphic cycles such as “Informal Stories and Pictures” and “Country Outing”. In 1924 he was appointed a full member of the Prussian Academy of Arts and appointed professor. On his 70th birthday, he will be honored with the exhibition "Zille's Career" in the Märkisches Museum Berlin, which will also purchase 100 of his works. Zille died in 1929 and was buried in the Stahnsdorf cemetery near Potsdam.
His works are kept in public and private collections all over the world and since 2002 there has finally been a permanent exhibition space for "this man who embodies the purest incarnation of Berlin" (Kurt Tucholsky), the Heinrich Zille Museum in Berlin. This piece has an attribution mark,
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