Emmy Hemmings Is Resigned by Reinhold Rudolph Junghanns (Germany, 1884-1967), original etching, initialed in pencil, circa 1910s, framed - 15 1/4" x 23"
 
Reinhold Rudolf Junghanns  was a painter, printmaker and sculptor who spent much of his career in Switzerland. He bagn his studies painting under Angelo Jank at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. He was a representative of German late expressionism. He also studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden with Robert Sterl and Oskar Zwintscher. Junghanns was notably inspired by Emmy Hennings, who later became his muse, creating drawings and etchings that culminated  in the 1914 portfolio Variatonen über ein weibliches Thema (Variations on a Female Theme). He exhibited alongside prominent artists such as Augusto Giacometti, Käthe Kollwitz, and Max Oppenheimer. His works are in various museums, including the Rhode Island School of Design's Museum of Art.  
 
Emmy Hennings is a fascinating figure.  She was a hustler, puppeteer, performer, poet, anti war activist, author, morphine addict, prison inmate, political radical, mystic, prostitute, and partner of leading Dada artist Hugo Ball. She was known as an Enfant Terrible of the German avant-garde and was a founding member of the Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, which marks the beginning of the Dada movement. She died giving up her ways to become a Catholic mystic.
 
It is belived that the works of Hennings done by Junghanns were done while she was deep in her drug addiciton.