Berlit, Rüdiger (1883 Leipzig - 1939 ibid.)

Lot 2055 limit € 50

Etching on handmade paper, river landscape, around 1921, unsigned, bottom left blind stamp of the printer Ernst Lau, rs. Inscribed in lead by someone else's hand, sheet 8 of the series 10 etchings ed. from the Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig 1985, in an edition of 25 copies, here inscribed as printer's proof E. Lau, slight signs of age, sheet approx. 35 x 42 cm, painter, watercolorist and graphic artist, studied at the academies in Leipzig and Munich, from 1913 development towards a restrained Expressionism, is regarded as the main representative of the little-known Leipzig Expressionism, defamed as degenerate after 1933, parts of his work destroyed in the air raid on Leipzig in 1944