WILLIAM HUNT DIEDERICH, CIRCA 1920

During the 1920s, perhaps Diederich's most productive and successful artistic period, he was admired as much for his silhouettes as for his sculpture. Many of these works evoke his idyllic childhood on a country estate in Hungary. His sketchbooks from 1904 and 1905 contain many scenes of medieval imagery, including knights and rampant lions. Chivalric scenes, especially hunting scenes, continued to appear frequently in Diederich's art across several media, including both his paper silhouettes and wrought-iron cutouts for firescreens.