Hegenbarth, Josef (1884 Bohemian Kamnitz - 1962 Dresden)

Lot 2233 limit € 180

Drypoint etching, girl in front of a mirror, 1920s, signed in lead under the print and limited 34/100, signs of age (including light stains), image approx. 28 x 22 cm, sheet approx. 47 x 33 cm, 1908-15 studies at the art academy Dresden 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 (now the Josef Hegenbarth Archive there), 1924-1936 freelance Employee of the magazine Die Jugend, 1925-44 employee at 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