Courtship (Werbung) (plate, page 99) from the periodical Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik, vol. 1, no. 7 (July 1919)
Adolf Ferdinand Schinnerer
German, 1876–1949
1919
A small lithograph printed in a 1919 Munich periodical in which the artist uses economical, gestural line to depict the emotional push-and-pull of a courtship scene.
Scratchy, energetic black strokes form a kneeling man clutching a standing woman with a second figure raising her arms behind them, producing a charged, improvised snapshot that reads more like movement caught in a moment than a finished drawing.
Published in a postwar literary journal, the plate exemplifies how early 20th-century graphic art used loose lithographic drawing to convey psychological immediacy and to bring avant‑garde figural study into broader public circulation.
Medium
Lithograph from a periodical with four lithographs
Dimensions
composition (irreg.): 6 x 4 15/16" (15.3 x 12.6 cm); page: 10 13/16 x 8 9/16" (27.5 x 21.7 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Curt Valentin
Accession
187.1973.29
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