Albert Welti

 

[1862-1912]

Waldfest

 

Engraving by Swiss Symbolist
Artist Albert Welti

 

A semi-nude woman feeds a winged horse while a young man paints.

 

Annotated Text in the plate: Waldfest - Forsthaus Adlisberg 9/8/1894 - Monogram in pencil AW. Albert Welti written lower right. (We believe the monogram to be in the hand of the artist, but the second annoation of the full name is most likely not in the artist's hand)

Albert Welti's work is in the collections of major Swiss museums and the subject of several books and was recently featured in the exhibit "1900, Symbolism and Art Nouveau in Swiss Painting" in the city of Sion.

After studying photography in Lausanne, Albert Welti traveled to Munich to study at the Munich Academy of Art. Following a stay in Venice, he became a student of one of Switzerland's most original 19th Century artists, Arnold Boecklin. Boecklin, master of a magical world of nymphs and satyrs, had a profound influence on Welti.

 

Later Welti studied the art of engraving with Peter Ha lm, the Bernese artist. The last years of his life were dedicated to painting the Salle du Conseil des Etats (Ständeratssaals) in the Swiss Parliament in Berne.

Welti was a very close friend of Hermann Hesse, author of Siddartha and Steppenwolf. Their friendship dated to their time together in Munich. Following Welti's death in 1921, Hesse and his family moved into the Welti's house in Bern, Switzerland and it was there that Hesse wrote many of his later works.

 

 

Conditions: Sheet has light age toning.

 

Dimensions: 13 X 18 cm full sheet

Image size: 10.5 X 12.5 cm

 

 

 

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