3823 - Wilhelm Lefebre, collection of prints

Wilhelm Lefebre, collection of prints three sheets, entitled “Beethoven”, “In the Primeval Forest” and “Women Emerging from the Water”, etchings, c. 1910, signed “WLefebre” in graphite to the right beneath the image, one of 30 copies each, two sheets bearing the artist’s red stamp, slight signs of wear, image dimensions max. approx. 30 x 23.5 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 61 x 45 cm. Artist information: born Albert Wilhelm Lefèbre, German painter and etcher (1873, Mannheim - 1974, Merano), initially a pupil at Ludwig von Rössler’s painting school in Frankfurt am Main, studied from 1889 to 1895 at the Düsseldorf Academy under Heinrich Lauenstein, Hugo Crola, Peter Johann Theodor Janssen and Arthur Kampf; from 1895 to 1898, he continued his studies with Karl von Marr in Munich; studied at the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean Paul Laurens from 1898 to 1903; worked in Paris until 1914, exhibiting there at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne; whilst in Paris, he became acquainted with Hans Purrmann, Oskar Moll, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso; 1914-66: worked in Frankfurt am Main; 1966: moved to Merano; member of the Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands (Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany), the Frankfurter Künstlerbund (Frankfurt Artists’ Association) and the Allgemeine Deutsche Kunstgenossenschaft (General German Art Cooperative); Source: Thieme-Becker, Dressler, Wikipedia and the internet.