Sell, Lothar (1939 Treuenbrietzen - 2009 Meissen)

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Woodcut, stairwell scene to Hans Fallada Everyone dies alone, signed, dated (19)75 and titled in lead under the print, placed in a simple passe-partout, signs of age (including traces of mounting, wavy), sheet approx. 32 x 25 cm, the novel Everyone dies alone from 1946 is considered the first book by a German author who did not emigrate about the resistance against National Socialism, Lothar Sell studied 1957-63 at the HfBK Dresden with Hans Theo Richter, among others, worked freelance in Meißen from 1963, 1966-69 master student with Richter at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, 1974-88 lectureship at the University of Industrial Design Burg Giebichenstein in Halle, until 2008 numerous exhibitions in Germany and Austria