These 3 small poultry prints managed to stay together for almost a century. They were found and acquired recently (febr. 2024) and able to stay together because the friendly seller felt sympathetic to my collection goals and passion.
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The large “Auerhahn” (Grouse) was the first print acquired by this obscure Munich printmaker many years ago. The large sized bouquet created with many different blocks and one of the finest examples of “flower bouquets” in this entire collection was found in June 2023. Finding a copy the yellow throated bird (hornbill ?) would be wonderful.
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Ackermann, Erna (? - after 1936 Munich?)
Printmaker (“Griffelkünstlerin”). Still unidentified printmaker but most probably identical with the maker of less than a dozen colourful prints mainly showing (tropical) birds and signed “E. Ackermann”.
Erna Ackermann is mentioned taking part in the 1932 “Münchener Kunstausstelling” June-October 1932. In this exhibition Graz printmaker Ellen Tornquist (1871 -1944) was also represented. Also took part in the 1936 “Große Münchener Kunstausstellung” with a “Tuschzeichnung “ titled “Bootshütten” (charcoal drawing titled “ships houses”).
In Munich: Jewish Theodor Ackermann founded in 1865: “Königliche Hofbuchhandlung und Antiquariat Theodor Ackermann, Promenadenplatz 11”. The firm was forced to close in 1933 by the Nazi regime. Theodor Ackermann was the son of publisher and bookseller Christian Georg Ackermann (1787-1850) who owned and founded the “Ackermannsche Buchhandlung” in Dessau in province Sachsen Anhalt.
A set of 3 bird prints (now in this collection0 was found in their original frames and framed by Munich framer Egon Stieber, Bleibtreustrasse 13.