Lot 158: LEFLER, HEINRICH. 1863-1919. Watercolor, unpublished illustration of Davi

LEFLER, HEINRICH. 1863-1919. Watercolor, unpublished illustration of David and Goliath for an unrealized picture book, 216 x 314 mm, n.d., matted. The Austrian artist, best known for his work with brother-in-law and famous set designer Joseph Urban (1872-1933), produced one masterpiece of German nursery rhyme illustration, Kling Klang Gloria (1907). Evidently he was planning a sequel for several finished watercolors in the same format as this ornate picture of David and Goliath survive. The rather delicate young Hebrew hero confronts a particularly fierce Prussian officer from the eighteenth century court of Frederick the Great.