Reinhold Boeltzig

Boeltzig, Reinhold

German sculptor (1863-1941). Autograph quotation signed. Steglitz. 8vo (postcard). 1 page.
$ 195 / 180 € (84308/BN54811)

Inscribed to the German dermatologist Alwin Scharlau: "Alles sei der Künstler eher | Als ein bloßer Geldverdiener! | Ihn erfreu der Menschen Gunst | Und der Ruhm als Lohn der Kunst | Bei verwandten feinen Seelen, | Und ich glaub zu diesen zählen | Sie, mein billiger Medizäer | Sie, mein teurer Mediziner! […]". - Joining the Royal School of Art in Berlin at age 14, Boeltzig worked as a journalist, editor and translator before acquiring several fellowships which allowed him to join the Berlin Academy of Arts in 1896, where he worked in a students' workshop from 1904 and was appointed Professor in 1930.

- 2 ink stains affecting the first two lines. Self-addressed by the collector on the reverse. The Mecklenburg physician Scharlau (b. 1888) assembled a collection of artists' autographs by personal application..

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