Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

Lot 9557 limit € 20

Lithograph, street fight, from the Paris Commune series, inscribed under the print in lead by a different hand(?), strong signs of age (including rolled, browned, stained, creased), sheet approx. 59 x 68 cm, 1948 studies at the FS for applied arts in Leipzig, from 1949 at the academy for graphic arts and book trade in Leipzig, which he dropped out in 1951, 1951-54 freelance in Leipzig, 1956-59 chairman VBK in the district of Leipzig, 1961-64 professor and rector of the HGB Leipzig, 1964 due dismissed as rector for his criticism of the cultural policy of the GDR, 1964-68 head of the graphics and painting department of the HGB, 1968 dismissal with subsequent freelance work, is one of the most important representatives of the Leipzig School alongside Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer and one of the most important representatives of GDR art, his students include Arno Rink and Neo Rauch