“Vor dem Spiegel“ – Portrait of a young woman, sitting in front of a mirror
Otto Goetze (1868-1931), “Vor dem Spiegel“ – Portrait of a young woman, sitting in front of a mirror, c. 1900, etching and softground etching, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate lower left]. In generally good condition, with margins, time staining and browning toward outer edges, printed in black on a cream/ivory Van Gelder laid paper, with their watermark; 8 1/2 x 6 1/4, the sheet 11 1/2 z 9 1/4 inches.
A good impression of this rarely encountered print.
Otto Goetze was a well-known painter and etcher in Berlin at the turn of the 20th Century. He studied at Leipzig and Munich Academies. After 1908 he focused entirely on etchings.