Artists and scuptors

most including separate prints of each hand, many with photographic negative prints, made by the palmist Marianne Raschig, in Berlin during the 1920s, including

1) artists: Lovis Corinth (left hand signed, "Lovis Corinth, Berlin, 26 Februar 1925", together with a negative photographic print, used in Raschig's 1931 book), George Grosz (both hands, signed, with the photographic negative and another photograph), Käthe Kollwitz (both hands signed, with a photographic negative), Max Liebermann (left hand print signed, and negative photographic print), Leonid Pasternak (both hands signed), Max Pechstein, Max Slevogt, Eugene Spiro, Heinrich Zille, Emil Orlik, Karl Hofer (both hands signed) , "Fidus" (ie, Hugo Höppener, both hands signed),  Heinrich Vogeler, Arthur Kampf, Arthur Fischer, Cesar Klein, Theo Matejko, Hermonie von Preuschen, Edwin Scharff, Ernst Stern, Rudolf Grossmann, Hanns Bastanier, Charlotte Behrend, Oscar Berger, Carl Bössenroth, Wilhelm Doms, Oskar Hadank, Paul Strecker, Georg Marschall, Walter Reger, Emil Rudolf Weiss and many others 



2) sculptors: Georg Kolbe (both hands signed, with a negative photographic print), Max Esser, Ludwig Gies, Ernesto de Fiori, Fritz Klimsch, Kurt Kroner, Hugo Lederer, Richard Scheibe, Renée Sentenis (both hands siged and with the negative print), the photographer Nicola Perscheid and architects Carl Jacobi and Otto Firle



3) art-collectors and dealers: Carl Hagemann, Eduard von der Heydt, Gottleib Friedrich Reber, Curt Valentin, Alfred Flechtheim, Wolfgang Gurlitt and Lily Agoston,



c.150 items in all, including some 20 brown photographic prints, in a ring-bound folder, Berlin, mainly 1924-1927  



 

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Marianne Raschig was the most serious and scholarly twentieth-century writer on hand-reading.  She assembled a remarkable collection of over 2,000 hand-prints of famous musicians, artists, writers and scientists in Berlin during the 1920s.  Each hand-print was invariably signed by the artist, the most celebrated of which appear in 158 plates in her book Hand und Persönlichkeit. Einführung in das System der Handlehre, 2 volumes in one (Hamburg, 1931). See also lots 325, 334, 348, 368 & 458.