4099 - Wolfgang Mattheuer, "Nachtstück"

Wolfgang Mattheuer, "Nachtstück" View from a closed window, with a candle and a woman’s head reflected in it, onto a night-time landscape bathed in moonlight; catalogue raisonné Koch 294, sheet 10 of the portfolio "Linolstiche", linocut on paper, signed and dated “W. Mattheuer (19)87” and numbered “8/60 10” on the left, mounted beneath the passe-partout using corner mounts, image dimensions approx. 21 x 20 cm, sheet dimensions approx. 40 x 32 cm. Artist’s biography: a leading German painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor (1927, Reichenbach/Vogtland - 2004, Leipzig); alongside Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig, a leading figure of the imaginary “Leipzig School”; initially, from 1941 to 1944, he completed an apprenticeship as a lithographer at the firm Carl Werner in Reichenbach; from 1946 to 1947, he studied at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts under Karl Miersch and Kurt Querner; from 1947 to 1951, he studied at the HGB Leipzig under Egon Pruggmayer; Walter Arnold and Elisabeth Voigt; 1951-52: worked for the ‘Illustrierte Rundschau’ in Berlin; from 1952: taught at the HGB in Leipzig, serving as a professor from 1965 to 1974; from 1974 worked as a freelancer in Leipzig and Reichenbach; member of the VBK of the GDR; from 1978 a member of the Academy of Arts of the GDR; undertook numerous study trips, including to Mexico, West Germany, Hungary, Sweden, Austria, the Netherlands, France, New York; from 1958, regularly featured in numerous art exhibitions at home and abroad, including “documenta 6” in Kassel; received numerous honours, including the National Prize of the GDR, the Federal Cross of Merit and the City of Leipzig’s “Viribus unitis” Medal of Honour, Source: including Vollmer, Eisold, *Artists in the GDR*; Heinz Schönemann, *Wolfgang Mattheuer*; Frank Weiß, *Painting in the Vogtland*; and the internet.