Heinrich Zille (Radeburg in Saxony 1858 - 1929 Berlin), 'Sitzende Mutter mit Säugling im Arm in Rückenansicht', charcoal drawing with color chalk heightening on brownish machine paper, mounted on brown cardboard and with the often faded red estate stamp in the lower margin, 11.7 x 8 cm, For reasons of economy, Zille used any available paper, tore open envelopes and cut up letters addressed to him in order to use the backs for his daily work sketches, under glass and Viennese passe-partout in a gold frame in the style of a Berlin bar, overall size: 35 x 30 cm, provenance: Galerie Binhold, Berlin. Limit 450,- >> German painter and draughtsman, trained as a lithographer in Berlin in 1872, chronicler of the Berlin proletariat and its "Milljöh", l.c.: Thieme Becker.

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