You are bidding on one beautiful naive drawing from 1862.


Motive: Woman at the bay window in an outdoor toilet, pointing with her finger at the pile of shit on the floor, which is formatted into a statue; marked "Pr. Uh. Statue in Beiersdorf".


Drawn by the still young later Coburg court printer Ernst Friedrich Dietz (1847-1887).


Signed “EFD 1862”, additionally “Er. Dietz" and "Ernst Friedrich Dietz drawn."


That certainly means Beiersdorf b. Coburg (today a district of Coburg).


Format: 16x10cm.


From an estate of the Dietz printing family.


Condition:a bit stained, cropped crookedly, otherwise good. Please also note the pictures!

About the illustrator the Coburg court book printer Serious Friedrich Dietz: born 1847 in Coburg as the son of the Coburg court printer Carl Friedrich Dietz and his second wife Dorothea Clemens (marriage 26. August 1833). In 1874 he took over the Coburg court book printing company from his father. At 19. In November 1874 he married Luise Rudolphine Theone Freysoldt from Könitz (née) in Coburg. 24. February 1857 in Coburg). He died on the 17th. March 1887. The printing press was later owned by Gustav Besser (the second husband of Ernst Friedrich Dietz's widow), who handed it over to Werner Knülle in 1905 (still under the name "Dietz'sche Hofbuchdruckerei").

Motive: Woman at the bay window in an outdoor toilet, pointing with her finger at the pile of shit on the floor, which is formatted into a statue; marked "Pr. Uh. Statue in Beiersdorf". About the illustrator the Coburg court book printer Serious Friedrich Dietz: born 1847 in Coburg as the son of the Coburg court printer Carl Friedrich Dietz and his second wife Dorothea Clemens (marriage 26. August 1833). In 1874 he took over the Coburg court book printing company from his father. At 19. In November 1874 he married Luise Rudolphine Theone Freysoldt from Könitz (née) in Coburg. 24. February 1857 in Coburg). He died on the 17th. March 1887. The printing press was later owned by Gustav Besser (the second husband of Ernst Friedrich Dietz's widow), who handed it over to Werner Knülle in 1905 (st