3980 - Heinrich Richter-Berlin, Head of a Man

Heinrich Richter-Berlin, Head of a Man Portrait of an elderly man with a beard and a cap, watercolour on paper, signed, dated and inscribed ‘Richter Berlin’ below the image on the right (19)16 Macedonia", slight signs of ageing, sheet dimensions approx. 32 x 21.5 cm. Artist information: born Heinrich C. Richter, German Expressionist painter and co-founder of the Neue Berliner Secession, as well as a film set designer (1884, Berlin - 1981, Berlin), studied at the Berlin University of the Arts but was expelled from further studies for exhibiting at the Berlin Secession without permission; was a co-founder of the splinter group Neue Berliner Secession, which existed until 1914; founded the new artists’ association Novembergruppe together with the co-founders of the Secession, such as Max Pechstein, Georg Tappert, César Klein and Moritz Melzer, founded the new artists’ association known as the November Group; he designed woodcuts for the Expressionist magazine *Der Sturm*; he was involved in Franz Pfremfert’s *Die Aktion*; he was a founding member of the Arbeitsrat für Kunst (Working Council for Art), whose first chairman was Walter Gropius; was a well-known architect specialising in film sets; his work was denounced as ‘degenerate art’ in 1933 and exhibited in 1937 at the exhibition of the same name in Munich; after the end of the war, he turned his hand to theatre set design and continued to paint into old age. Source: Internet.