The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 16, 2026
Portrait of Marianne Brockhaus in Leipzig
1899
(German, 1869–1916)
Sheet: 58.1 x 46.2 cm (22 7/8 x 18 3/16 in.)
Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 2025.145
Location: Not on view
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.- ?–?Private Collection, Leipzig?–2025(Nicolaas Teeuwisse, Berlin, Germany, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)June 9, 2025–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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