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Raskolnikoff in Dialogue with the Judge

Woodcut
1919 (made)
Artist/Maker

Margarete Hamerschlag was a pupil of Franz Cizek, a pioneer of modern child education, who taught Saturday morning art classes in Vienna from 1904 until the outbreak of the 1914-1918 War. She was just 17 when she made this print. The image looks almost like a sheet of studies and illustrates a scene of interrogation from the novel Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevsky. In spite of her youth, Hamerschlag seems keenly aware of the writer's intense psychological insight into deranged morality.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleRaskolnikoff in Dialogue with the Judge (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Woodcut on paper
Brief description
Margarete Berger Hamerschlag: Raskolnikoff in Dialogue with the Judge. A scene from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Woodcut 1919
Physical description
woodcut print on japanese paper pasted to pink support sheet: two figures in forground -head and shoulders only; desk with lamp and two chairs to top left of image
Dimensions
  • Printed surface height: 23.5cm
  • Printed surface width: 22.6cm
  • Sheet (irregular) height: 24.2cm
  • Sheet (irregular) width: 23.4cm
the Japanese paper on which the impression is made is pasted to a pink support sheet.
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • MH (1) Signature)
  • Raskolnikoff in Dialogue with the Judge (English; pencil)
  • Woodcut (English)
  • 1919 (Date)
Object history
This print was purchased from the widower and the son of the artist in 1988

Historical significance: Margarete Hamerschlag was a pupil of Franz Cizek, a pioneer of modern child education in Vienna, who held art classes for children from age six to sixteen between 1904 until 1914. According to the date on the work she would have been just seventeen when she made it. An exhibition celebrating his achievements was held in Bethnal Green Museum of Childhood in 1989.
Production
The date appears to be written in a later hand than that which inscribed the title

Attribution note: the edition number of this print is not known, it is possible this may be a unique impression
Subjects depicted
Literary referenceCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Summary
Margarete Hamerschlag was a pupil of Franz Cizek, a pioneer of modern child education, who taught Saturday morning art classes in Vienna from 1904 until the outbreak of the 1914-1918 War. She was just 17 when she made this print. The image looks almost like a sheet of studies and illustrates a scene of interrogation from the novel Crime and Punishment by Fydor Dostoyevsky. In spite of her youth, Hamerschlag seems keenly aware of the writer's intense psychological insight into deranged morality.
Collection
Accession number
E.1127-1988

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Record createdNovember 27, 2002
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