Null Wolfgang Simon, 1940 Berlin-2013, German illustrator, studied at the Berlin…
Description

Wolfgang Simon, 1940 Berlin-2013, German illustrator, studied at the Berlin University of Fine Arts, #'As you go to bed, so you lie, #' songs and ballads by Bertolt Brecht, bound work with 22 orig. Woodcuts on Rives laid paper, Edition C Ed. 29/80, hand-signed and numbered by the artist, 36 p., Edition Handpresse Gutsch, in a slipcase, 64x46 cm

6427 

Wolfgang Simon, 1940 Berlin-2013, German illustrator, studied at the Berlin University of Fine Arts, #'As you go to bed, so you lie, #' songs and ballads by Bertolt Brecht, bound work with 22 orig. Woodcuts on Rives laid paper, Edition C Ed. 29/80, hand-signed and numbered by the artist, 36 p., Edition Handpresse Gutsch, in a slipcase, 64x46 cm

Auction is over for this lot. See the results

You may also like

Bruno Richter, View Mittenwald and Karwendel winter view of the snow-covered Mittenwald in Werdenfelser Land in Upper Bavaria, view into a sunny alley with alpine estates decorated in Lüftlmalerei in front of the Catholic St. Peter and Paul church and the steeply rising bizarre mountain silhouette of the Karwendel mountains, poetic painting in finely tuned colours, watercolour. Peter and Paul church and the steeply rising, bizarre silhouette of the Karwendel mountains, poetic painting in finely balanced colours, watercolour and gouache, around 1930, signed "Bruno Richter" lower right, old owner's label on the reverse "... Bieneck, Berlin-Siemensstadt ...", originally framed behind glass, folded dimensions approx. 46.5 x 59 cm. Artist information: German landscape, architecture and oriental painter and illustrator (1872 Halle to after 1946 Munich?), regarded as "one of the last German painters of the Orient", studied at the Academy in Leipzig, further training at the Weimar art school, finally further training in Munich, travelled extensively to Greece, Arabia, Egypt and North Africa (Morocco), member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands, the Verband deutscher Illustratoren, the Wirtschaftlicher Verband Berliner Künstler and the Ring der deutschen Kunstschaffenden, attended the Great German Art Exhibition at the Haus der Deutschen Kunst in Munich in 1940, mentioned as working in Berlin-Friedenau 1909-40, later probably in Munich, source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Müller-Singer, Dressler, files of the Reichskammer der Bildenden Künste Berlin, Jansa and Wikipedia.

Ernst Petrich, Coastal Scene probably East Frisian coast with windmill under effective clouds, impasto impressionist painting with broad brushstrokes, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left "E. Petrich 21/III. 1912", various annotations on the frame verso, including "Ernst Petrich *1878 † 1964", minor cleaning required, nails hammered into the reverse, framed in wide gold moulding, rebate dimensions approx. 45 x 54 cm. Artist information: actually Carl Ernst Petrich, German painter, draughtsman, illustrator. Painter, draughtsman, illustrator and graphic artist (1878 Gravenhorst near Hörstel to 1964 Leer/East Friesland), childhood in Leer, initially trained as a painter and commercial artist, 1898 pupil at Philipp Franck's art school in Berlin, 1898-1901 studied at the Düsseldorf Academy under Peter Janssen the Elder and Eduard von Gebhardt, 1901 short-term student at the Académie Julian in Paris, from 1901-09 studied marine painting at the Berlin Academy under Carl Saltzmann, at the same time student of commercial art under Hans Mayer, 1905-12 pupil of Friedrich Kallmorgen, then freelance in Berlin, at the same time private lecturer and until 1939 teacher of commercial art at the Handwerker- und Gewerbeschule, member of the Verband Deutscher Illustratoren, from 1912 member of the Verein Berliner Künstler, member of the Vereinigung Westfälischer Künstler und Kunstfreunde, the Allgemeine Deutsche Künstlergenossenschaft and the Freie Vereinigung der Graphiker zu Berlin, 1949 return to Leer, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Müller-Singer, Dressler, Busse, Bénézit, Bruckmann "Lexikon der Düsseldorfer Malerschule", Ries and Wikipedia.