4114 - Martin Erich Philipp, pair of colour woodcuts

Martin Erich Philipp, pair of colour woodcuts ‘Still Life with Japanese Figure’, Götze catalogue raisonné D 11, c. 1920-30, and ‘Poinsettia’ (Christmas star), Götze catalogue raisonné D 55, 1936, colour woodcuts on Japanese paper, each signed in pencil beneath the image “M. E. Philipp", monogrammed "MEPH" on the block; slight signs of wear; each framed with a passe-partout and behind glass; image dimensions approx. 22 x 21.5 cm and 48 x 33.5 cm. Artist information: monogrammed “MEPH”, German-Jewish painter and graphic artist (1887, Zwickau - 1978, Dresden), studied at the Dresden School of Applied Arts from 1904 to 1908, studied at the Academy of Fine Art under Oskar Zwintscher and Osmar Schindler from 1908 to 1913; a master student of Gotthardt Kuehl and Richard Müller at the Dresden Academy; received numerous awards, including the Saxon State Medal at the Bugra in Leipzig in 1914; Member of the Reich Association of Visual Artists of Germany and the Dresden Art Cooperative; later a member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR; worked in Dölzschen near Dresden, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Eisold, *Künstler in der DDR*; Kürschner’s *Graphikerhandbuch* (1967); and Wikipedia.