Georg Jahn (1869 - 1940) Drypoint Print Titled: Fünf nackte Knaben beim Spiel am Strand (Five Nude Boys Playing on The Beach) Circa 1900

Fünf nackte Knaben beim Spiel am Strand... The Artist (Below)

The halls of the various European eBay Auction Sites have been like the Saraha desert lately in regards to affordable academic nudes, (Some examples are so rediculously over priced that I have watched them stew on eBay for months on end) so, as I am want to do in my old age, I decided to search for additional works by artists I already have in my collection, the most recent example being Georg Jahn (1869-1940). I went on an adventure in the online Auction and Art Gallery world and found there are few and far between examples of nudes by Georg Jahn which are affordable. So I kept digging and up popped the Georg Jahn print titled "Fünf nackte Knaben beim Spiel am Strand" from a gallery in Germany. I suddenly had a vague memory of a similar print being up for grabs on eBay Germany several years ago and that I had lost the bidding on that ocassion. Thanks to Biden's destruction of the US Dollar and the resultant addition of more Biden dollars into my monthly income I decided that this rare print was now affordable, so I bought it. To say Georg Jahn was a master printmaker would be a gross understatement. If you will do some basic research you will see that he produced some very fine portraits and landscapes. Another example of "What goes around eventually comes around?" I'll say it is! Here is some additional biography on Jahn from the Armstrong Fine Art site: "Georg JAHN As many artists in the 19th century, Georg Jahn (1869-1940) started his formal training as an artist with an apprenticeship. In his case this was as a porcelain painter at the royal porcelain factory in Meißen when he was just 14 years old and it lasted to 1888. Clearly showing promise, he was awarded a scholarship to the art academy in Dresden by the manufactory. Jahn studied at the art academy with Leon Pohle from 1888 to 1890. In 1890 he moved on to study at the Großherzoglichen Sächsischen Kunstschule in Weimar with Max Thedy. After completing his military service, he launched his independent career as an illustrator and portraitist in Berlin (1894-95), then in Leipzig and Munich (1895-96). By 1897 Georg Jahn had returned to Dresden for good. He joined a newly formed artists' association, the Verein Bildender Künstler Dresden (Secession). His close friend Max Pietschmann introduced him to etching around that time. The technique would soon become all-consuming to Jahn, who is today almost exclusively remembered for his etchings. He is thought to have left over 300 compositions, which are executed with great detail. His fine line renders modulations of light in grayscales few etchers of his time were ever able to attain. Portraits dominate his oeuvre, as do nudes, scenes of everyday life in small towns and along seashores". (Personal Note: Google has decided to improve the way blogs are composed and posted, which of course has screwed up what used to be a very easy process for seasoned citizens like me, now making it a pain in the rump, so forgive any spacing and allignments of paragraphs. Apparently Google has taken a page from Apple's engineering improvements to turn simple for ordinary peasants into happy fields of elysium for computer geeks and sycophants worshiping at Apple's multi-billion dollar phallus)(There I said it)