Boldly penned autograph quotation from the celebrated violinist who writes "Nietzsche / Alle Kunst / bringt Trost" ['All art brings comfort'] and signs in full "Arnold Rosé." On a sheet measuring 7.5 x 4.5 inches (18 x 12 cm),  tipped along the upper edge to a matting window (easily removed) and in very fine condition. 

We have not been able to pin down a source for this apparent quote. But Nietzsche wrote extensively about his philosophies of art and the quotation certainly fits squarely with parts of The Will to Power, where he argues that art – specifically Apollonian art – is, at its core, an illusion that protects us from reality, from the inevitability of suffering and death. “For a philosopher to say, ‘the good and beautiful are one,’ is infamy,” he writes in that book, “if he goes on to add, ‘also the true,’ one ought to trash him.” Truth, he concludes, “is ugly. We possess art lest we perish of the truth.”

Leader of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for over half a century, he worked closely with Brahms and was the brother-in-law of Gustav Mahler. Although not known internationally as a soloist he was a great orchestral leader (concertmaster) and player of chamber music, leading the famous Rosé Quartet for several decades.