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Portrait of Marianne Brockhaus in Leipzig

1899

Otto Greiner

(German, 1869–1916)
Culture
Germany
Medium
Pen lithograph
Measurements
Sheet: 58.1 x 46.2 cm (22 7/8 x 18 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 2025.145
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

In addition to this portrait, Otto Greiner also designed an ex-libris (or bookplate) for Brockhaus to use in her prolific book collection.

Description

Otto Greiner favored esoteric themes drawn from dreams, the unconscious, and a timeless classical past. Early on, he apprenticed with a lithographer, giving him proficiency in printmaking that was well-suited to experimentation. Here, Greiner portrayed Marianne Brockhaus, an influential collector of both artworks and books—a practice that was, in her time, still unusual for a woman. Her distant gaze and finger holding her place in a book suggest her intellectual interests, while her precisely rendered dress and chic chignon mark her as fashionable and modern.

Portrait of Marianne Brockhaus in Leipzig

1899

Otto Greiner

(German, 1869–1916)
Germany

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