(Celestial Musicians) - from Ave Maria by Thomas a Kempis

 

Dietz Edzard

  1893 - 1963 (biography)

1920  

drypoint 

12 5/16 x 9 3/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

52 of 75  

editioned in pencil 

 

japan nacre 

published in Amsterdam, 1920 

Joh. Enschede & Zonen, Amsterdam 

15427 

$300.00 

Thomas a' Kempis was a 14th/15th century German-Dutch canon regular, who authored The Imitation of Christ, which is often regarded as the best-known Christian devotional writing. Dietz Edzard executed a portfolio of five drypoints to commemorate the book in 1920, his imagery done in the sparse and delicate style for which he was known and which lent itself to expressions of mystical or religious ethereality.