Berlit, Rüdiger (1883 Leipzig - 1939 ibid.)

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Etching on handmade paper, "Flusslandschaft", around 1921, unsigned, bottom left blind stamp of the printer Ernst Lau, rs. Inscribed in lead by a hand other than that, sheet 8 of the series "10 Etchings" ed. from the Galerie am Sachsenplatz, Leipzig 1985, in an edition of 25 copies, here inscribed as printer's proof E. Lau, slight signs of age, sheet approx. 35 x 42 cm, painter, watercolorist and graphic artist, studied at the academies in Leipzig and Munich, from 1913 development towards a restrained Expressionism, is regarded as the main representative of the little-known Leipzig Expressionism, defamed as "degenerate" after 1933, parts of his work destroyed in the air raid on Leipzig in 1944