"I've tidied myself up."

(1858 Radeburg - 1929 Berlin) "I have tidied myself up." Original title: A humorous drawing of a young Berlin woman in an elegant dress with an enormous hat. This work illustrates Zille's extraordinary talent for capturing the character, features, and essence of the depicted figures both as individuals and as types. He achieves this by focusing only on the essentials and compressing his images. With a few soft, flowing lines and strokes, he captures the contours and body, complementing them with delicate, flat coloring. A charcoal drawing with colored chalk on Japanese paper. On the reverse, there are two stamps from the estate in red paint: "Heinrich Zille" (Rosenbach 1) and "Estate of Professor Heinrich Zille" (Rosenbach 4). There are traces of fixative, slight yellowing, and stains. 18.7 cm x 13.2 cm. Framed. Provenance: From the artistic estate of the artist, managed by his son Walter Zille.