Press, Friedrich (1904 Ascheberg - 1990 Dresden)

Lot 2011 limit € 70

Lithograph on handmade paper, "Two disciples", signed in lead under the print, indistinctly inscribed on the lower edge of the sheet, framed behind glass, sheet approx. 53 x 39 cm, with frame approx. 62 x 48 cm, training as a wood and stone sculptor in Münster, then in the 1920s studied at the Dortmund School of Applied Arts, at the Charlottenburg School of Applied Arts and at the Dresden Art Academy, among others with Georg Wrba, was valid in the III. Rich as a degenerate artist, after his return from captivity in 1946 active in Dresden, concentration on sacred art and church interior design, participation in the design of over 40 churches in the GDR and the FRG