2 etchings on Japan paper. Each signed in the plate. Each 1899.

Each in a mount 34 x 25.5 cm.

"Before closing time", plate: 16 x 15,5 cm, sheet: 28 x 25 cm | "March night", plate: 15,5 x 15,5 cm, sheet: 28 x 24,5 cm.

German painter, graphic artist, architect, designer, educator, writer and socialist; belonged to the first generation of the artists' colony Worpswede: "What Heinrich Vogeler stands 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).

Literature : WVZ Rief 31 and 33.