Morgner, Michael (1942 Chemnitz - active ibid.)

Lot 9621 limit € 90

Aquatint etching of 2 plates in brown and black on laid paper, citius, altius, fortius (faster, higher, stronger), signed in lead under the print, dated (19)82 and inscribed EA, handwritten dedication by the artist on the lower edge of the sheet, cf. WVZ Werner/Juppe 2000 No. 6/82, creased, behind glass in a simple frame, depiction approx. 49 x 32 cm, sheet approx. 46 x 54 cm, with frame approx. 81 x 61 cm, 1961-66 study at the HGB in Leipzig, 1977-82 member of the artist group clara mosch, 1984 first works on ecce homo and times of day-seasons, 1986 ecce-homo cycle, representations of the Dance of Death, since 1992 member of the Saxon Academy of Arts and the Free Academy of Arts Leipzig, 1994 founding member of the Kunst für Chemnitz association, 2004 winner of the Biocity Leipzig plastics competition, 2006 art prize of the Christian Art Foundation in Wittenberg, since 2014 permanent exhibition in Meißner Cathedral, 2018 first prize winner of the Schmidt-Rottluff Prize