Irmgard Horlbeck-Kappler – Daoist Image

Irmgard Horlbeck-Kappler

The Dao / The Tao

Original Engraving by the artist Irmgard Horlbeck-Kappler from Leipzig with a wonderful German text about Taoism and an abstract represenation of the Tao or Dao, “which flows into and supports all things … ”

Sheet size: 38 X 49 cm

Image size: 24 X 32

Text reads in part:

“Doch Herr de Dinge wil es niemals sein so mag mans nennen gross, weil es die eigene Grosse nicht ermusst vermag es gross zu sein.”

Aquatint engraving with strong plate mark. Not signed.

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