"Good Friday," after Fritz Von Uhde)

Henry Wolf

After the 1891 painting titled "Ostermorgen" (Easter Morning) by Fritz Von Uhde, one of Germany's most outstanding early Impressionists. He frequently depicted emotional domestic and religious scenes. Here, three women walk along a rural path, their heads in poses of grief and somber reflection. It's unknown why Wolf gave his engraved rendering of Uhde's painting a different title, though the sober atmosphere of the image appears to be more appropriate for Good Friday.

Uhde was a member of the Munich Secession group with Liebermann, Slevogt and Corith. He was known for his religious subject matter. "Ostermorgen" is illustrated on page 59 of "Kunstler Monographien - Von Uhde" by Fritz von Ostini, 1911, Verlag von Velahge & Klasing.

In 1915, the year before his death, the American wood engraver Henry Wolf won the Grand Prize for his printmaking at the Panama Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco. The Wolf prints we have were available for sale at the PPIE and many, such as this, were the actual prints exhibited and have the label from the PPIE, with his return address and the edition size and original price of $18.00 noted.