Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

Lot 9736 limit € 20

Lithograph, "Theodor Fontane" (1999), signed in pencil lower right, annual issue of the Pirckheimer Society, issue 157 from the year 2000, printed by Tabor-Presse Berlin, sheet approx. 22.5 x 13 cm, 1948 studies at the FS for applied arts 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 VBK in the district of Leipzig, 1961-64 professor and rector of the HGB Leipzig, 1964 due dismissed as rector for 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, is one of the most important representatives of the Leipzig School alongside Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer and one of the most important representatives of GDR art, his students include Arno Rink and Neo Rauch