Höpfner, Wilhelm (1899 Magdeburg - 1968 ibid.)

Lot 9505 limit € 20

Etching, Mechanical Ballet II, posthumous print, signed below the image by the widow Johanna Höpfner for W. Höpfner and limited 32/35, image approx. 16 x 19 cm, sheet approx. 47 x 35 cm, probably print from the 1970s , 1918 studied at the arts and crafts school in Magdeburg, 1919 at the state art school in Berlin, worked as a drawing teacher in Magdeburg from 1921, joined the left-leaning artists’ association Die Kugel, worked with the architect Bruno Taut, from 1926 in Berlin, became acquainted with Max Liebermann and Käthe Kollwitz, renewed work in the school service, in addition various functions in the GDR cultural association etc., the Winckelmann Society Stendal has been awarding the Wilhelm Höpfner Prize for the promotion of young graphic artists since 1984