Hermann Hesse

Bei den Pyramiden
1920

Watercolour on paper

18.2 × 13.8 cm / 7 3/16 × 5 7/16 in

Signed and dated

Inscribed »Dies ist Egyptenland« by Hesse on a label attached to the verso

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Provenance

Private Collection Calw; Private Collection Munich

Exhibitions

Galerie Ludorff, "Hermann Hesse – Malerfreude", Düsseldorf 2016
Olaf Gulbransson Museum, "Hermann Hesse - Aquarelle und Gedichte", Tegernsee 2013
Galerie Ludorff, "Der Anfang aller Kunst ist die Liebe – Aquarelle und Gedichte von Hermann Hesse", Dusseldorf 2012

Literature

Galerie Ludorff, "Hermann Hesse – Malerfreude", Dusseldorf 2016, p. 45
Galerie Ludorff, "Hermann Hesse – Der Anfang aller Kunst ist die Liebe – Aquarelle und Gedichte von Hermann Hesse", Dusseldorf 2012, p. 53

The writer Hermann Hesse also worked as a visual artist and created an extensive oeuvre of watercolours and poetry illustrations.