Schulze, Fritz (1903 Leipzig - executed 1942 Berlin-Ploetzensee)

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Woodcut on light cardboard, "Spanischer Strassenarbeiter", posthumous print, signed and titled lower right in pencil by Eva Schulze-Knabe for Fritz Schulze, signs of age (among other things browned, edge slightly wavy), image approx. 58 x 41 cm, sheet approx. 65 x 50 cm, from 1923 studied at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Art in Leipzig and from 1925 at the Dresden Academy, among others with Ferdinand Dorsch, 1927-29 master student with Robert Sterl, study trips with his later wife Eva Schulze-Knabe to Finland, Italy and Spain, co-founder of the "ASSO" Dresden, as resistance fighters in the III. Reich persecuted, arrested in 1940, executed on June 5, 1942