Lithograph. Fischer & Franke Berlin.

Image: 27 x 14 cm. Framed & behind glass:48.5 x 33.5 cm.

1 of 10 pictorial plates from Gerhart Hauptmann's fairy tale drama "The Sunken Bell", 1898.

German painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, educator, writer and socialist; belonged to the first generation of the artists' colony Worpswede: "What makes Heinrich Vogeler stand out among the other artists of Art Nouveau and Symbolism is the light-hearted fairy-tale quality of his imagery with its great fabulist art. Such fairy-tale pictures have in common the emphasis on a world of sensation in which mysterious processes take place." (Citation: Hans H. Hofstätter in: Symbolism and Art Nouveau in Painting and Graphic Art by Heinrich Vogeler, www.heinrich-vogeler.de).