Saalborn, Prof. Friedrich (1924 Cranzahl/Sa. - 1997 Halle ad Saale)

Lot 2032 limit € 30

Altogether probably around 30 graphics, watercolors etc., works for surface design, from his time in Havana, portrait, still life etc., including: 1 x watercolor still life with flower pot, signed and dated 1950, approx. 36 x 30 cm (mounted ), 1 x outline drawing in ink, multi-figured scenery, inscribed "Saalborn Habana 1974" lower right, approx. 51 x 73.5 cm, 3 x wood abrasions, each signed in lead and dated 1949, sheet format in total approx. 59 x 42 cm, 1 x pastel, male portrait, signed on the reverse and dated 1951, approx. 30.5 x 22 cm, 1 x watercolor, titled "Herbst" on the reverse, dated 1954, sheet format approx. 42 x 29 cm, 1 x gouache, still life with flowers, signed lower right and dated 1950, sheet format approx. 36.5 x 31 cm, 1 x watercolor drawing, view from the window of the Ore Mountains landscape, signed lower right and dated 1945, sheet format approx. 29.5 x 29.5 cm etc., different Signs of age and wear, 1945-47 apprenticeship as a commercial artist, 1947-1952 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, 1952-1954 artistic director of the VEB cotton and linen weaving mills in Neugersdorf, 1954-1960 artistic director of the VVB cotton Karl-Marx- City and the central model office Lengefeld, 1961-1965 artistic director at the Institute for Applied Arts and Crafts in Berlin, 1965-1968 stay in Cuba (participation in the establishment of the first college for industrial design in Havana, taking over the management), 1968-1971 head of the Department of surface design at the University of Design Burg Giebichenstein (Halle) and director of the product and environmental design section, 1969 appointed professor, 1969-1971 lecturer at the Technical University of Karl-Marx-Stadt, 1971-1974 lecturer at the chair for surface design of the National Art Academy in Havana, 1974-1989 full professor at the Burg Giebichenstein Design Academy (Hall e), head of the department of surface design, from 1982 first drafts of folk art, further development of the traditional Erzgebirge figures in shape and color design.