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Fröhlich Apokalypse V: Das Gerettete Haus (Happy Apocalypse - The Saved House) by Hans Georg Rauch

Fröhlich Apokalypse V: Das Gerettete Haus (Happy Apocalypse - The Saved House) by Hans Georg Rauch

Fröhlich Apokalypse V: Das Gerettete Haus (Happy Apocalypse - The Saved House)

Hans Georg Rauch

Title

Fröhlich Apokalypse V: Das Gerettete Haus (Happy Apocalypse - The Saved House)

 
Artist

Hans Georg Rauch

  1939 - 1993 (biography)
Year
1975  
Technique
etching with aquatint and roulette 
Image Size
11 11/16 x 9 3/4" platemark 
Signature
pencil signed, lower right 
Edition Size
42 of 75  
Annotations
pencil editioned 
Reference
Wilhelm Busch Museum 1981 catalogue, cat. no. 3 V 
Paper
cream German etching wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
ROJA122 
Price
SOLD
Description

In this surrealist work, the apocalypse is occurring before our eyes. Upon what appears to be a hanging piece of rent parchment is a depiction of a wall of boxed suites at the opera house. A female torso reclining on the stage is nothing more than draped and folded paper being enveloped by the falling parchment backdrop. This etching is striking its play of light against dark and the juxtaposition of tonal roulette lines against crisp etched lines.