131 - Heinrich Zille (Radeburg, Saxony, 1858–1929, Berlin), “Der Stutzer” (Man with a Bowler Hat), ca. 1920, black chalk on machine-made paper, bearing at the bottom edge the red estate stamp used by Zille’s children for their father’s drawings (Rosenbach Stamp 1, Lugt 2676b), 17.8 x 9.8 cm. Heinrich Zille was famous for his frugality: he used every scrap of paper he could get his hands on, cutting up letters, envelopes, and discarded drawings, and always carried a number of these scraps with him so that he could complete his studies on the spot—on the train, in a restaurant, or on the street—at any time; mounted under glass with a mat in a Baroque-style gilded frame; overall size: 36 x 31 cm. Limit 198,-

Heinrich Zille (Radeburg, Saxony, 1858–1929, Berlin), “Der Stutzer” (Man with a Bowler Hat), ca. 1920, black chalk on machine-made paper, bearing at the bottom edge the red estate stamp used by Zille’s children for their father’s drawings (Rosenbach Stamp 1, Lugt 2676b), 17.8 x 9.8 cm. Heinrich Zille was famous for his frugality: he used every scrap of paper he could get his hands on, cutting up letters, envelopes, and discarded drawings, and always carried a number of these scraps with him so that he could complete his studies on the spot—on the train, in a restaurant, or on the street—at any time; mounted under glass with a mat in a Baroque-style gilded frame; overall size: 36 x 31 cm. Limit 198,- >> German painter and draftsman; trained as a lithographer in Berlin in 1872; chronicler of the Berlin proletariat and its “Milljöh”; lit.: Thieme Becker.