Prof. Willi Sitte, Alter Mann und Liebespaar nacktes, sich intig umarmendes Paar und Portrait eines älteren Herren, lithograph in olive green on cardboard, signed and dated "WSitte (19)82" in pencil lower right and numbered "59/100" in the centre, barely perceptible crease, sheet dimensions approx. 20 x 29.5 cm. Artist information: sudetendt. Painter and graphic artist (1921 Kratzau - 2013 Halle/Saale), studied from 1936 at the art school of the North Bohemian Museum of Decorative Arts in Reichenberg in Bohemia (Liberec), 1940-41 at the Hermann Göring Master School for Painting in Kronenburg/Eifel under Werner Peiner, after criticism of the school conscription to the Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, Later to Italy, where he deserted and joined the partisans, 1945-46 artistically active in Milan, Vicenza and Venice, 1947 moved to Halle, from 1951 teaching position at the Burg Giebichenstein Art School (later "Burg Giebichenstein - University of Art and Design Halle"), 1959 appointed professor here, from 1964 increasingly political posts, 1969 elected member of the German Academy of Arts, 1974-88 president of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR and from 1976 member of the People's Chamber, since 1985 member of the World Peace Council, from 2001 member of the European Academy of Humanities Paris, undertook study trips through Italy, France and Belgium, important artist of the GDR and representative of "Socialist Realism", active in Halle, source: Vollmer, Eisold "Artists in the GDR" and Internet.