Shaw, Elizabeth (1920 Belfast - 1992 Berlin)

Lot 9522 limit € 30

Algrafie on handmade paper, "In the gallery", signed, titled and dated (19)74 under the print in lead, signs of age, sheet approx. 36 x 38.5 cm, German-Irish caricaturist, writer and children's book author, from 1938 studying at the Chelsea School of Art in London, specializing in book illustration, publication of drawings as early as 1940, 1943 first exhibition, 1944 marriage to the sculptor and painter René Graetz, who had fled Germany, 1946 move to East Berlin, where she lived until the end, working as an illustrator for various magazines and newspapers, 1959 commissioned by the German Academy of Arts in Berlin (East) caricatures of all 43 members of the Academy, from 1961 texts for children's books with his own illustrations