Wilhelm GALLHOF (1878-1918) ✿

Guardami ...
guardami
attraversa i miei occhi ora

se mi provochi
dovrai inventarmi di nuovo
farmi sospirare
farmi gridare se taccio
farmi godere
dovrai girarmi e rigirarmi
come una perla solitaria nella seta...'

~ Catherine La Rose ~
tratto da "La Collana di perle"
 Female Nude (Die Korallen-Kette) The Coral-Chain, 1910

Wilhelm Gallhof (1878 at Iserlohn - Died in Action 1918) was a German artist who studied in Munich, Karlsruhe, and with Lovis Corinth in Berlin. He worked in Weimar and Paris and was represented in many national and international exhibitions. As a sculptor and graphic artist, he was equally successful and brilliant as a painter. This particular painting appeared as a full page display in the German Magazine: Jugend (Youth), 1917, Volume II, No. 42, page 824/825). What a terrible shame that war had to take this wonderfully talented human being.