Watercolour, Baltic Sea port with fishing boats, monogrammed lower right, framed behind glass in the passe-partout, section approx. 27 x 38 cm, with frame approx. 52 x 62 cm, 1924-26 apprenticeship as a lithographer, 1927-30 studies at the Dresden School of Applied Arts with 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 GDR Art Prize, 1977 National Prize