Hermann Kätelhön (Hofgeismar near Kassel 1884-1940 Munich), "Hauer im Flöz", 1919, lithograph on yellowish wove paper, signed in pencil lower right, from the portfolio "Die Arbeit, Folge 1", 29.7 x 42.3 cm, with details by another hand on the reverse, under glass and passepartout in narrow silver mount, overall size: 51.5 x 63 cm - enclosed: Hans Wille, Hermann Katelhön: Leben und Werk, 180 pages, Verlag Glückauf GmbH, Essen 1982. limit 54,- >> German graphic artist a. ceramicist, studied in Marburg as well as under K. Kornhas in Karlsruhe, since 1908 he studied graphic art under P. Halm, artists' colony Willingshausen, lived and worked in Essen since 1917, ill.: Vollmer.

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