Verna 1896

 

Hans Nicolaj Hansen

  1853 - 1923 (biography)

1896 / 1906 

etching 

6 1/4 x 4 13/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

not stated 

titled & dated "1896" in plate; intialled, monogrammed and dated "1906", also in plate and dedicated to Georg Brochner in ink in lower margin. 

 

cream laid paper 

proof 

artist 

14698 

$250.00 

Like many late nineteenth century Scandivian printmakers Hans Nicolaj Hansen studied in Paris and Rome around 1880, where he would have been exposed to the, at the time, radical etchings of American James Abbott McNeill Whistler. This impression is from the collection of Danish critic and author Georg Bröchner (1874-1933) who wrote on Scandinavian art for the British art magazine "The Studio" in the early 20th century. He exposed many Scandinavian artists as to what was happening in London and Paris and, in turn, wrote about what was happening in the Scandinavian countries.