Etching. Pencil signature lower right.

Print block 31 x 29 cm. Framed & behind glass : 39.5 x 37.5 cm.

Print reproduction of a study sheet of polar bears, in various postures and stages of elaboration, signed "WKlemm/Hellabrunn .8.18".

Painter, graphic artist and university teacher, studied - after encouragement from Emil Orlik - at the Vienna School of Applied Arts and art history at Vienna University. Klemm was part of the Vienna Secession (1904), the Dachau artists' colony and the Berlin Secession (1910). Depictions of animals such as these became more frequent in Klemm's work after his appointment as professor of graphic art at the Grand Ducal Saxon Academy of Fine Arts in 1913.

Literature : https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz42698.html.