(Three choral singers) - from Ave Maria by Thomas a Kempis

 

Dietz Edzard

  1893 - 1963 (biography)

1920  

drypoint 

11 5/8 x 3 7/8" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

52 of 75  

editioned in pencil 

 

heavy cream wove 

published 

Joh. Enschede & Zonen, Amsterdam 

15429 

$225.00 

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.