Oil/hardboard, "Orpheus and the Animals", monogrammed and dated 1962 lower left, minor signs of age, framed, approx. 80 x 100 cm, with frame approx. 85 x 105 cm, formerly owned by the writer Erich Wustmann, 1924-26 Apprenticeship as a lithographer, 1927-30 studies at the Dresden School of Applied Arts under P. Hermann, G. Erler and A. Drescher, collaboration with Otto Griebel and acquaintance with Wilhelm Lachnit, E. Bursche and Curt Querner, 1945 bombing of his studio, 1974 Art Prize of the GDR, 1977 National Prize
