Gustav Heinrich Wolff, end of throne (Aphrodite?), charcoal, parchment, drawing, charcoal on parchment, total: height: 21.8 cm; width: 15.8 cm, dated: recto upper right with charcoal: 10 11. 23, sketches, seated figure, throne, history of Venus (Aphrodite), classical modernism, sketch of a female figure sitting on a decorated throne, from the sketchbook 1923. An inscription in Greek script is placed on the throne base; the first line is clearly readable: TΥ Δ ϖ MAkAIΡA - possibly it is an excerpt from the hymn to Aphrodite by the Greek poetess Sappho. Throughout his life, Gustav Heinrich Wolff (1886-1934) studied Greek antiquity and mythology intensively, as evidenced by many of his works, both graphic and sculptural. As a student of a humanistic grammar school, he had learned Greek among other languages and later even left several translations from Greek, so that he most likely read Sappho in the original text. (Insa Brinkmann)
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