Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

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Lithograph on BKF Rives, The mute daughter Kattrin has been attacked..., sheet XII from the portfolio of lithographs on Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and her children - a chronicle from the Thirty Years' War, Edition Brusberg, Berlin 2001, printed by Tabor- Press (blind stamp), signed in lead below the image and limited 31/33, image approx. 24 x 16 cm, sheet approx. 66 x 50 cm, 1948 studied at the FS for Applied Arts Leipzig, from 1949 at the Academy for Graphic Art Art and book trade in Leipzig, which he breaks off 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 dismissed as rector because of his criticism of the cultural policy of the GDR, 1964 -68 Head of the graphics and painting department of the HGB, 1968 termination 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, his students include Arno Rink and Neo Rauch