Mattheuer, Wolfgang (1927 Reichenbach - 2004 Leipzig)

Lot 9586 limit € 100

Woodcut, Sisyphus carving the stone, signed and dated in lead below the print (19)73, rs. Stamp of the Plauen graphics community (No. 13), WVZ Koch/Gleisberg/Seyde No. 191, minor signs of age (including signs of rolled storage, minor kinks), depiction approx. 35 x 40.5 cm, sheet approx. 50 x 65 cm, 1941-44 apprenticeship as a lithographer, from 1946 studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule, then until 1951 at the HGB in Leipzig, from 1953 first as an assistant, then lecturer and finally professor at the HGB, alongside Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig main representatives of the Leipzig School