KUNSTHANDLUNG RUMBLER

Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler was founded by Helmut and Petra Rumbler in Frankfurt in 1971. From the beginning the gallery was focusing on Old Master Prints of exceptional museum quality from the 15th to the 19th century.

Since 2016, when Helmut Rumbler passed away, the gallery is led by Petra Rumbler together with Dr. Michael Weis. The gallery continues its tradition of annually publishing richly illustrated and well researched catalogues. For decades Kunsthandlung Helmut H Rumbler has been exhibiting at TEFAF Maastricht each spring as well as the International Fine Art Print Fair New York in the fall.

Excellent impression of one of the master’s most popular pictorial creations, and one that – despite the fact that the artist never actually saw a rhinoceros – determined the European image of this exotic beast for more than two centuries.

Showing the horizontal crack that continues through all four legs and the snout, as referenced by Meder specifically for the 8th edition, and the wormholes visible on the ear, eyelid, and horn.

Highly unusual at the same time by virtue of its exceptional clarity and the distinctness of the lineaments, so that the detailed graphic texture contrasts strikingly with the white of the paper. Wholly consistent with Dürer’s original intentions, unlike the immediately preceding edition issued by the Amsterdam publisher Willem Janssen, who had brought the RHINOCERUS onto the market as an effective chiaroscuro composition by means of a color printing block.

With 1-2 mm margins around the borderline. The right upper corner reattached, although this is virtually imperceptible. Otherwise perfect and radiantly beautiful.