4129 - Fritz Zalisz, "Wind-Swept Trees on the Darß"

Fritz Zalisz, "Wind-Swept Trees on the Darß" Pine trees scarred by the storm on a Baltic Sea beach, with a solitary figure; an expressive ink drawing on paper executed with a confident hand, c. 1920, monogrammed ‘Fr. Z.’ in the bottom left-hand corner, slight signs of ageing, mounted in a passe-partout, sheet dimensions approx. 50 x 37 cm. Artist information: born Joseph Fritz Zalisz, German painter, graphic artist, sculptor and poet (1893, Gera - 1971, Leipzig-Holzhausen), a painter of the ‘lost generation’; initially undertook zoological studies with Ernst Haeckel in Jena, then studied under Ritter Gabriel Cornelius von Max and Adolf von Hildebrand in Munich; from 1918, studied at the Academy of Graphic Arts and Book Design (HGB) in Leipzig under Otto Richard Bossert, Alois Kolb and Adolf Lehnert; undertook a study visit to Berlin, subsequently working as a freelance artist in Leipzig; spent time on Sylt in 1922 and 1923; in 1927, declined an offer of a professorship in Madrid; undertook study trips to Italy (1924), the Netherlands, France, Belgium, the Adriatic and Switzerland; made regular visits to the Baltic Sea; ostracised as ‘degenerate’ from 1933 to 1945; from 1926 a member of the Leipzig Masonic Lodge ‘Minerva zu den drei Palmen’; member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR; worked in Holzhausen near Leipzig from 1940, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Eisold, *Artists in the GDR*, and Wikipedia.