Hegenbarth, Josef (1884 Bohemian Kamnitz - 1962 Dresden)

Lot 2228 limit € 440

Pen and ink drawing on cardboard, animal scene, signed in pencil lower right, probably template for the illustrations for Reineke Fuchs (JW von Goethe, epos in twelve songs, published by Insel-Verlag Leipzig 1964), slight signs of age (including min. stained, traces of mounting), but overall in good condition, sheet approx. 24.5 x 15 cm, 1908-15 studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Carl Bantzer, Oskar Zwintscher and Gotthardt Kuehl, 1914 first exhibition with Emil Richter in Dresden, since 1915 member of the Dresden Artists' Association, 1921 purchase of a house in Dresden-Loschwitz (where today the Josef Hegenbarth Archive is located), 1924-1936 freelancer for the magazine Die Jugend, 1925-1944 work for Simplicissimus, from 1926 member of the Vienna Secession, from 1929 member of the Prague Secession, after World War II employee of the magazines Ulenspiegel and Der Simpl, from 1947 professor at the HBK Dresden