Swimmer, Max (1895 Leipzig - 1960 ibid.)

Lot 9749 limit € 100

colored pen drawing on light cardboard, figure studies, 2 men with top hat and 4 women representations, rs. also a figure study in pen, each unsigned sketches for a book illustration, signs of age (among others browned), sheet approx. 25.5 x 18 cm, early 1950s, after teacher training and studying art history and philosophy in Leipzig, establishment in the Leipzig artist and cabaret scene, until 1933 he taught at the Leipzig School of Applied Arts, parts of his works were defamed as "degenerate", from 1946 professorship at the HGB Leipzig, from 1951 head of the graphics department at the HS Dresden