Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

Lot 9014 limit € 20

Lithography on BKF Rives, The Song of Capitulation..., sheet XI 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 the Tabor press ( Dry stamp), signed in lead below the image and limited 9/33, image approx. 45 x 36 cm, sheet approx. 66 x 50 cm, 1948 studied at the FS for Applied Arts in Leipzig, from 1949 at the Academy for Graphic Art and Book trade in Leipzig, which he stopped 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 at the HGB, dismissed in 1968 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 the D DR-Kunst, among his students are Arno Rink and Neo Rauch