Mattheuer, Wolfgang (1927 Reichenbach - 2004 Leipzig)

Lot 9066 limit € 180

Woodcut and red body colour, moped driver in front of a red sun, signed and dated in lead on the right under the print (19)77, limited 27/50 on the left, slight signs of age (e.g. edge area slightly creased), image approx. 47 x 37 cm, sheet approx 58 x 40 cm, cf. Lit.: Drechsel/Mössinger: Wolfgang Mattheuer. Das Druckgrafisches Werk, p. 207, no. 259-1, 1941-44 apprenticeship as a lithographer, from 1946 studies at the Kunstgewerbeschule, then until 1951 at the HGB in Leipzig, from 1953 first as an assistant, then lecturer and finally professor at the HGB, along with Werner Tübke and Bernhard Heisig, main representatives of the Leipzig School