Franz Tippel "Engine construction brigade". Probably 1950s/1960s. Franz Tippel1923 Fugau - 2010 Regenstauff Oil tempera and opaque colours on paper, laminated on hardboard. Verso inscribed in black ink "Entwurfsskizze", titled, signed "Franz Tippel" and with the artist's address "Bolivar Str. 31". Framed in a narrow, white wooden frame. Franz Tippel was involved, among other things, in the installation of the mosaic wall design on Prager Straße, Dresden, at the Hotel Newa (GDR). Image carrier curved. Marginal lesions with fraying of the hardboard. Isolated small water streaks in the paint in the marginal area. Several scratches and small paint layer flaws on the picture surface. Paper backing partially detached from the hardboard (inconspicuous). Dimensions: 75 x 102,2 cm, cm. 77,9 x 102 cm. Franz Tippel 1923 Fugau - 2010 Regenstauff

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