Beschrijving
Four sheets of the calendar for 1924 (each sheet with three months). Each sheet has a small landscape etching by Oskar Paul Matthes on it. All of the landscapes are Dutch rural landscapes, with barns, bridges, farmers and waterways.
Etching with plate tone on wove paper, with letterpress calendar printed in grey. Sheet sizes 241 x 320 mm., platemarks 80 x 118 mm. Each sheet with the title Ets-kalender voor 1924 (Etching calendar for 1924) printed above and to the side of the etching. Each of the etchings signed in the plate by the artist. Published by W. de Haan (Utrecht) in 1924.
Oskar Paul Matthes (Kaliningrad 1872 – 1956 Bergholz-Rehbrücke) was a German autodidact lithographer, etcher, draughtsman and painter. From 1901 to 1910 he was active in the Netherlands, before moving to Luzern, and later Potsdam. Most of his etchings are landscapes and cityscapes.
In poor condition, each of the sheets partly covered by a dampstain, one of the sheets with remains of mould in the lettering of the month. Foxing in the margins, the first two sheets with a band of discolouration in the top margin.
