170 - Kurt Craemer (Saarbrücken 1912–1961, Province of Salerno), “Italian Dockworker,” ca. 1940, mixed media (gouache and pastel) on chamois-colored Fabriano handmade paper, unsigned, 48 x 66 cm, each of the four corners with small thumbtack holes, the edges slightly creased, with short tears and signs of wear, a powerful, spontaneously rendered drawing, no title. Limit 108,-

Kurt Craemer (Saarbrücken 1912–1961, Province of Salerno), “Italian Dockworker,” ca. 1940, mixed media (gouache and pastel) on chamois-colored Fabriano handmade paper, unsigned, 48 x 66 cm, each of the four corners with small thumbtack holes, the edges slightly creased, with short tears and signs of wear, a powerful, spontaneously rendered drawing, no title. Limit 108,- >> German painter, designer, and illustrator. A student of Friedrich Ahlers-Hestermann at the Cologne Werkschule beginning in 1928, a student of Paul Klee at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1930 to 1933; when Paul Klee was forced to leave the academy in 1933, Craemer also went to Italy, where he later had his mother join him after his father’s death, In 1939, he contracted polio and was paralyzed from the waist down ever since.