Sigmund Lympasik 1920 Berlin - 1996 Ebenda - "Testa abends" - India ink, charcoal watercolor, tempera, collage/paper. 46.5 x 28.5 cm (mat cut-out). Monogr. l. above: SL. Dat. r. (19)62. Signed and titled verso. Passepartout. Framed under glass. From 1938 Lympasik was a student at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Berlin-Charlottenburg. He took part in the Second World War as a soldier in the Wehrmacht, including in France. He returned from captivity as a prisoner of war in 1947. Back in Berlin, he studied at the Berlin Academy. In 1951, Lympasik was awarded the Berlin Art Prize.

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