2093 - Holtz, Karl. Collection of 9 (1 signed) lithographs on various types of paper. 1922–1927. Image dimensions: 14.5 x 28 cm to 23 x 29 cm. Sheet dimensions: 38 x 47 cm to 50 cm.

Holtz, Karl. Collection of 9 (1 signed) lithographs on various types of paper. 1922–1927. Image dimensions: 14.5 x 28 cm to 23 x 29 cm. Sheet dimensions: 38 x 47 cm to 50 cm. A beautiful collection consisting largely of lithographs created following Holtz’s first trip to Italy in 1924. The signed work is “The Donkey Cart,” cataloged in the Karl Holtz Archive under the number KHV 1925.12. In the 1925 issue of *Büchergilde* (No. 3), the motif was described as “Tuscan Cart,” but it is also known as “Andalusian Mountain Village” or “Spanish Village Street with Horse-Drawn Carts.” - Also available are the unsigned lithographs: I. Italian Harbor (KHV 1925.11). - II. Italian Marketplace with Fountain (KHV 1925.13). - III. Village on the Mediterranean (Cactus Garden on Capri) (KHV 1925.6). - IV. Rocky Valley (KHV 1926.2). - V. Umbrian Town (KHV 1926.1). - VI. Havelberg (KHV 1927.1), described in the “Degenerate Art” confiscation inventory as “View of a Village with a Hiker in the Foreground.” - VII. Road in a High Valley (KHV 1927.4). - IX. Men at the Balustrade (Danzig) (KHV 1922.9.) - Karl Holtz (1899–1978), who had studied under Emil Orlik and, beginning as early as 1916, contributed numerous caricatures to various magazines such as “Ulk,” “Lustige Blätter,” and later also “Die Rote Fahne,” “Der Wahre Jacob,” and “Eulenspiegel,” was barred from practicing his profession in 1933 and, beginning in 1937, was defamed as a “degenerate artist.” After the war, he lived in the Soviet Occupation Zone and was able to build on his earlier successes before being sentenced in 1949 by a Soviet military court to a prison term for a caricature of Stalin, which he served in Bautzen until 1956. - Mostly somewhat discolored, dusty, stained, and creased.