Marx, Carl (1911 Göttnitz - 1991 Dessau)

Lot 9523 limit € 100

Ink drawing on cream-white paper, bashful, two dancing figures, monogrammed lower right, rs. titled, slightly creased, sheet approx. 59 x 41 cm, 1926-29 trained as a decorative painter, joined the Socialist Workers' Youth, 1931-33 studied at the Bauhaus with Josef Albers, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Wassily Kandinsky, first in Dessau and then in Berlin until the Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis, in the Second World War war service, 1947 first exhibition of his works in Dessau, since then freelance painter ibid., 1953 sent to production for a year as a concrete worker due to formalistic tendencies, 1971 personal exhibition in the Gallery Moritzburg Halle and 1986 at the Bauhaus Dessau