Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

Lot 9541 limit € 40

Ballpoint pen on cream-colored paper, self-portrait (1985), signed at the bottom, designed as a folding card, typographically printed with thanks for the ... congratulations on the occasion of my 60th birthday ..., minor signs of age (min. browned, min. creased), Overall size approx. 20 x 15.5 cm, 1948 studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Leipzig, from 1949 at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig, which he dropped out in 1951, 1951-54 freelance in Leipzig, 1956-59 chairman of the VBK in the district of Leipzig, 1961-64 professor and head of the HGB Leipzig, 1964 dismissed as rector due to his criticism of the cultural policy of the GDR, 1964-68 head of the graphics and painting department of the HGB, 1968 dismissal with subsequent freelance work, numerous awards since 1970 and exhibitions, including the 2005/06 exhibition Bernhard Heisig - the rage of images in Düsseldorf, Leipzig, Berlin and Breslau, Bernhard Heisig counts alongside Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer the most important representatives of the Leipzig school