Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

Lot 9063 limit € 80

Lithograph, man with alter ego, signed in lead under the print, framed behind glass in the passe-partout, sheet section approx. 38 x 26 cm, with frame approx. 53 x 43 cm, 1948 studied at the FS for Applied Arts Leipzig, from 1949 on the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig, which he dropped out of in 1951, 1951-54 freelance in Leipzig, 1956-59 chairman of the VBK in the district of Leipzig, 1961-64 professor and rector of the HGB Leipzig, 1964 because of his criticism of the cultural policy of the GDR as Rector dismissed, 1964-68 head of the Department of Graphics and Painting at 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, one of his students include Arno Rink and Neo Rauch