2107 - Huth, Willy Robert. Untitled. (Man with a flat cap). Mixed media with felt-tip pen, watercolor, and wax crayon on heavy paper. Monogrammed and dated lower right. 1964. Sheet dimensions: 26.5 x 17 cm. Mount size: 38.5 x 29 cm.

Huth, Willy Robert. Untitled. (Man with a flat cap). Mixed media with felt-tip pen, watercolor, and wax crayon on heavy paper. Monogrammed and dated lower right. 1964. Sheet dimensions: 26.5 x 17 cm. Mount size: 38.5 x 29 cm. Willy Robert Huth (1890–1977) is considered one of the outstanding artists of the “Lost Generation” of Expressive Realism. After training at the School of Applied Arts in Erfurt and in Stuttgart under Paul Kaemmerer—where he met W. Baumeister and A. Hölzel—he worked as a freelance painter in Berlin beginning in 1919. There he met Schmidt-Rottluff, Heckel, Pechstein, and Grosz, who were part of his circle of friends. Under the Nazis, he was banned from painting, and all of his works were destroyed in a bombing raid. From 1947 to 1957, he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. — The sheet is fully mounted on a backing; the corners and edges show minimal wear, but is otherwise in very good condition.