426 - Gustav Seitz, Two Female Nudes, signed lithograph from 1967

Gustav Seitz, Two Female Nudes, signed lithograph from 1967 Gustav Seitz, 1906 Mannheim - 1969 Hamburg, Two Female Nudes, lithograph, 65 x 49 cm, signed, numbered 131/200, edges slightly browned, without frame About the artist: Gustav Seitz studied at the Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe and at the Vereinigte Staatsschulen für Freie und Angewandte Kunst in Berlin under Ludwig Gies; from 1928 he was a master student of Wilhelm Gerstel and, from 1933 to 1938, of Hugo Lederer. In 1943, his studio and flat in Berlin, along with his entire collection of works, were destroyed. After taking up a professorship at the Technical University of Berlin in 1946 and living in the GDR from 1950 to 1958, he moved to Hamburg and taught sculpture at the University of Fine Arts until 1969. From 1955 onwards, he exhibited sculptures and drawings both in Germany and abroad, and his works are represented in many German collections. He exhibited at documenta II (1959) and III (1964) in Kassel and at the Venice Biennale (1968), and was a member of the German Artists’ Association.