4079 - Richard Grimm-Sachsenberg, Collection of Woodcuts

Richard Grimm-Sachsenberg, Collection of Woodcuts four works featuring motifs from the Upper Vogtland (Auersberg and Klingenthal areas) and one sheet depicting a street scene in Rothenburg ob der Tauber with musicians, colour woodcut and woodcuts on paper, c. 1920, each signed in lead beneath the image ‘R. Grimm-Sachsenberg” and variously inscribed; monogram ligated in the block; some have minor imperfections; each framed with a passe-partout and behind glass; image dimensions max. approx. 23.5 x 18 cm. Artist information: born Karl Richard Grimm, German painter, graphic artist, book and type designer (1873, Untersachsenberg/Vogtland - 1952, Leipzig); studied at the Dresden Academy from 1891 to 1893, 1893-94 at the Holoszy Private School of Painting and 1894-98 at the Academy in Munich under Karl Raupp, as well as studying painting under Anton Azbè; produced illustrations for the Munich magazines *Fliegende Blätter*, *Jugend*, ‘Simplicissimus’ and ‘Pan’; in 1898, he completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer in Leipzig, subsequently working in Berlin, Dresden-Loschwitz and Munich; in 1900, he travelled to Italy; 1902-04, on the recommendation of Peter Behrens, taught at the Krefeld Art School; in 1905, he was a master student under Ludwig von Hofmann and returned to Leipzig in 1907; from 1905 onwards, he used the artist’s name ‘Grimm-Sachsenberg’ as a tribute to his birthplace; from then on, he worked for the *Bugra* and as a freelance artist in Leipzig; his works are held in the print collections in Dresden, Munich and Leipzig, and at the Vogtland Museum in Plauen; exhibited at the Great Berlin Art Exhibition and the Glaspalast in Munich; a member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany, the Free Association of Weimar Artists, the Leipzig Artists’ Association and the Association of German Book Trade Artists in Leipzig, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Goldstein, the registers of the Dresden and Munich Academies, Müller-Singer, Bénézit, Wikipedia and Frank Weiß, *Malerei im Vogtland*.