193 - Otto Lackenmacher (Saarbrücken 1927–1988 Saarbrücken), *Prisoners*, 1947, pen-and-ink drawing on brownish vellum, signed and dated “19.12.47” vertically on the left-hand side, 62.5 x 58 cm, an important early drawing from the series of prisoner drawings created while studying under Frans Masereel at the State School of Art and Crafts in Saarbrücken, “against the resistance of his teachers, who taught the constructivist Bauhaus tradition and the abstraction of the École de Paris, he drew prisoners of war, the starving, and the broken; only Frans Masereel encouraged him in his painting” (Wikipedia), mounted under glass in a black-edged silver frame, overall dimensions: 68 x 64 cm. Limit 1,620

Otto Lackenmacher (Saarbrücken 1927–1988 Saarbrücken), *Prisoners*, 1947, pen-and-ink drawing on brownish vellum, signed and dated “19.12.47” vertically on the left-hand side, 62.5 x 58 cm, an important early drawing from the series of prisoner drawings created while studying under Frans Masereel at the State School of Art and Crafts in Saarbrücken, “against the resistance of his teachers, who taught the constructivist Bauhaus tradition and the abstraction of the École de Paris, he drew prisoners of war, the starving, and the broken; only Frans Masereel encouraged him in his painting” (Wikipedia), mounted under glass in a black-edged silver frame, overall dimensions: 68 x 64 cm. Limit 1,620 >> Painter and printmaker from Saarland; 1941–43 at the Meister School in Trier; 1947–53 at the Grande Chaumière in Paris; married Katja Sorg in 1951; numerous series of prints.