Naumann, Hermann (1930 Kötzschenbroda - active in Dittersbach)

Lot 2076 limit € 200

Portfolio with 8 lithographs on handmade paper, plus 1 bronze medal and 1 photo documentation, "Hermann Naumann. I breathe in powerful features of space. Sculpture and graphics", "Variation I" to "Variation VIII", each signed in lead, titled and dated 1988 , limited "77" of 125, with cardboard dust jacket and slipcase, plus bronze medal on the back. Inscribed "In veneration of Ernst Barlach" with the artist's signature and date 1987, D approx. 9 cm, in an extra linen case, as well as 4 sheets with black-and-white images of sculptures from the years 1979-85, with a text by Walt Whitman, ed . by Lothar Lang and Hans Marquardt, graphic edition XXXI, published by Reclam-Verlag Leipzig in 1990, signs of age (including min. creases), sheet size approx. 53 x 39 cm, graphic artist and sculptor, 1947-49 sculptor apprenticeship with Herbert Volwahsen, who taught him into his studio in Loschwitz, accepted in 1950 as the youngest student in Germany's VBK, from 1950 freelance in Dresden, lived and worked in the Loschwitzer Künstlerhaus, 1994 moved to Dittersbach to the "Künstlerhaus Hofmannsches Gut", where he has lived and worked ever since, Hermann Naumann was close friends with Otto Dix, whose daughter he often portrayed in his works