Beschreibung:

Bound Collection of 19th-Century Swiss and German Drawings and Watercolors thirty works, plus title and dedication pages, collated and affixed to album pages by Walter Baumann for his wife Mary Muller Baumann (1863-1933) of Zurich, Switzerland, five works are lacking, the other twenty-five are by Arthur Calame Johann Gottfried Steffan August Benziger (3), Julius Adam Emilie Vouga Edouard von Grutzner, Ernst Stuckelberg, Rosalie Gay, Otto Bauman, Emil Rittmeyer, Otto Biermer Johann Zahnd Rudolf Koller Franz Aerni, Louise Rudisuhli, Emil Schuback, Wilhelm Fussli, Albert Kappis Peter W. Quack, Eduard Pfyffer Caspar Ritter one untitled and two charcoal drawings inscribed in French and Italian and indistinctly signed [A]aspaghi. drawings and watercolors 5-1/2" x 5-1/4" to 11" x 15"; overall book 23-1/2" x 18-3/4" x 2-1/2" drawings and water colors 5-1/2" x 5-1/4" to 11" x 15" overall book 23-1/2" x 18-3/4" x 2-1/2" drawings and water colors 5-1/2" x 5-1/4" to 11" x 15" drawings and water colors 5-1/2" x 5-1/4" to 11" x 15" overall book 23-1/2" x 18-3/4" x 2-1/2" drawings and water colors 5-1/2" x 5-1/4" to 11" x 15" Provenance: Descended in the family. Notes: Walter and Mary Muller Baumann were married in Zurich in 1887, and lived near the lake by what is now the Bauer Loch Hotel. Both were involved in the performing and visual arts of their community. Mary, an accomplished pianist, played at concerts and entertained throughout Zurich. This fine collection of drawings and watercolors, which the Baumanns reportedly bought together at local bazaars, features works by numerous well-known artists; landscapes of the Swiss and German countryside/Black Forest by Steffan, Kappis and Aerni; horses and Roman campagna scenes by Zahnd, Calame and Koller; floral still lifes by Vouga and Gay; and three drawings by August Benziger who painted Mary's portrait as well as numerous other dignitaries at the time- seven presidents, two popes and Alexander Graham Bell to name a few. This collection is both an intimate reflection of the Baumanns and a compendium of Swiss/German art at the turn-of-the century.