105 - Otto Ditscher, greeting cards, one watercolour and four woodcuts, all signed

Otto Ditscher, greeting cards, one watercolour and four woodcuts, all signed Otto Ditscher, 1903-Neuhofen-1987, German painter and member of the ‘Pfälzische Sezession’ artists’ association, here: watercolour, 6 x 13 cm, signed, with a dedication, and 4 small woodcuts, various motifs, sizes ranging from 8 x 14 cm to 16.5 x 14 cm, all signed, partially mounted on card, with a dedication, without frame About the artist: Ditscher studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1922 to 1925 under Adolf Schinnerer, Max Doerner and Max Mayrshofer. The artist’s work features classical themes such as still lifes, portraits and landscapes, as well as transpositions of these motifs into abstract forms, informal paintings and collages. In 1937, as part of the Germany-wide concerted campaign ‘Degenerate Art’ by the National Socialists, his oil painting ‘Aus den bayerischen Vorbergen’ was confiscated from the Bavarian State Art Collections in Munich.