Indian Chief in Battle Dress, ca. 1944

  • Hans Jaenisch, German, 1907 - 1989

Watercolor and pen and black ink with additions of white gouache on wove paper

  • Sheet: 14 5/8 × 9 5/8 inches (37.1 × 24.4 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Szluk

73.241

Signed, in pen and black ink, lower left edge: Jae

Inscribed, in ink, upper left: 30/5 Indianeer im Kriegsschmuck | im Camp Inscribed, in pencil, upper right: für meinen Freund | Pit Szluk | 9-9-49

Hans Jaenisch

Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Szluk (Phoenix, Arizona, USA)

1973-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Uhr, Horst. German Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1987, p. 103, no. 52 (ill.).

Hans Jaenisch, Indian Chief in Battle Dress, ca. 1944, watercolor and pen and black ink with additions of white gouache on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Szluk, 73.241.