GRAPHIC ARTS - ETCHINGS BY ELKE REHDER - Radierungen, Aquatinta Radierung

Graphic arts portfolio with etchings to poetry by Friedrich Hölderlin, songs by Heinrich Heine, THE TRIAL by Franz Kafka, DAS MAJORAT by E. T. A. Hoffmann and THE LAY OF THE LOVE AND DEATH OF CORNET CHRISTOPH RILKE by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Here you'll also find a graphic arts portfolio to the topic chess. In this etchings the chessmen are in action on the chessboard. All limited editions are numbered and signed by the artist Elke Rehder.

FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN - TO HERCULES

Graphic Suite with 4 numbered and signed etchings and one paper art object on the title page by Elke Rehder. Preface by Günther Nicolin. Handbound portfolio. Bookbinding by Christian Zwang, Hamburg. 6 pages Text, 39 x 55 cm. 1994. 40 numbered and signed copies.

HEINRICH HEINE - LIEDER ( SONGS )

SONG OF THE SILESIEN WEAVERS

THE LONELY FIR TREE

POISONED ARE MY SONGS

Graphic Suite with 4 numbered and signed etchings by Elke Rehder. Text in German in handmade letterpress printing. Im düstern Auge keine Träne ( Die schlesischen Weber, Weberlied ), Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam ( Music composed by Hans Pfitzner ) and Vergiftet sind meine Lieder ( Music composed by Franz Liszt for piano and voice ). Bookbinding by Christian Zwang, Hamburg. 5 pages text, 38 x 39 cm. 1995. 25 numbered and signed copies.

A single etching you'll find under the button Etching.  

Graphic suite with 6 numbered and signed etchings by Elke Rehder. Handcrafted portfolio by the artist. 8 pages , 18 x 24 cm. 1995. 36 numbered and signed copies.

FRANZ KAFKA - THE TRIAL

Graphic suite with 7 numbered and signed colour etchings by Elke Rehder. Handbound portfolio by Christian Zwang, Hamburg. 5 pages text, 39 x 55 cm. 1996. 40 numbered and signed copies.  

Single etchings in variations you'll find under the button FRANZ KAFKA in the navigation frame.

RAINER MARIA RILKE - THE LAY OF THE LOVE AND DEATH OF CORNET CHRISTOPH RILKE

Graphic suite with 6 numbered and signed dry-point engravings by Elke Rehder. Handcrafted portfolio. Brochure with extracts from the text. 19 x 23 cm. 1996. 25 numbered and signed copies.

DAS MAJORAT was first translated by Robert Pierce Gillies as ROLANDSITTEN published in his German Stories, London 1826.

Graphic suite with 6 numbered and signed color etchings by Elke Rehder. Handmade portfolio by Christian Zwang, Hamburg, in dark red cloth. Text brochure in German. 40 pages, 39 x 55 cm. 1997. 40 numbered and signed copies.  

A single etching in different variations you'll find under the button Etching

FRIEDRICH HÖLDERLIN - DREI GEDICHTE ( Three Poems )

EMPEDOKLES ( Empedocles )

LEBENSLAUF ( Curriculum vitae )

HÄLFTE DES LEBENS ( Half of Life )

Box with 3 colour etchings, 3 colour paper objects with etching and one additional etching on the front board. Text in letterpress printing after the German first edition. 5 pages text. 38 x 49 cm. 2001. 40 numbered and signed copies.

A single paper art object with etching you'll find under the button PAPER ART in the navigation frame.

GRAPHIC ARTS - WOODCUTS BY ELKE REHDER
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Graphic arts in suite and portfolio with woodcuts by Elke Rehder to Stefan Andres mediterranean poem DER GRANATAPFEL ( The Pomegranate - Punica granatum ) and to the SCHACHNOVELLE ( The Royal Game ) by Stefan Zweig and other editions to the topic chess.

The graphic suite SCHACH-GESPRÄCHE MIT FIGUREN is a fictive conversation with chessmen. The layout is in a kind of Bauhaus typography by the artist Elke Rehder. The cassette HOLZGEBURTEN containes 8 numbered and signed color woodcuts.

STEFAN ANDRES - DER GRANATAPFEL ( The Pomegranate Punica Granatum)

Suite with 7 colour woodcuts by Elke Rehder to the poem of Stefan Andres. All numbered and signed. Separate broschure with the text. Handcrafted in red boards. 22,5 x 28,5 cm. 1995.

For a handbound by Christian Zwang please visit the button Book Edition.

Single woodcuts can better be seen under the button Woodcut.

Portfolio with 6 numbered and signed colour woodcuts by Elke Rehder on Dosabiki Masachi Japanese paper. Handcrafted portfolio. 5 pages with extracts from the novel. 18 x 24 cm. 1996. 36 numbered and signed copies.

A single woodcut printed in brown color with a quotation from the text you'll find under the button SINGLE-SHEET PRINTS in the navigation frame.

Single woodcuts are better presented under the button Chess Woodcuts

ELKE REHDER - CHESS-TALKS WITH CHESSMEN

Graphik suite with 6 numbered and signed hand-coloured woodcuts by Elke Rehder. A fictive dialog with the chessmen on the chess board. 8 pages text. Text by Elke Rehder in first edition. 18 x 24 cm. 1999. 50 numbered and signed copies.

ELKE REHDER - CHESS II

Cassette with 8 numbered and signed color woodcuts by Elke Rehder and one woodcut on the front board. Text brochure  32 pages with illustrations from the artist's sketchbook in facsimile. First edition. 38 x 49 cm. 2000. 80 numbered and signed copies.