9088 - A total of 27 works on paper—watercolors, ink drawings, and chalk drawings—from the artist’s estate, mostly FIGURATIVE SCENES depicting everyday life in the GDR during the 1960s, including scenes at work or in the LPG, (small-town) street scenes, Baltic Sea landscapes and beach figures; some monogrammed “MIG”; each bears an estate stamp on the reverse; signs of age, including discoloration; some with minor tears at the edges; slight staining; sheet size up to approx. 48 x 53 cm; 1937–41: trained in fashion illustration; subsequently worked as an animator; 1944–45 conscripted as a technical draftsman in the arms industry; from 1949 worked as a press illustrator for Berlin daily newspapers and as a book illustrator; married Max Grabowski in 1949, 1950–51: Master student under Heinrich Ehmsen at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts; 1952–54: Graduate student under Alois Kowol at the KHS Berlin-Weißensee; subsequently worked freelance, including as a press illustrator; 1960–65: Employed for cultural-policy projects at VEB Berliner Metallhütten und Halbzeugwerke, including leading an artists’ circle