Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

Lot 9080 limit € 80

Chalk lithograph, portrait of Heinrich Mann, signed in lead below and marked as a test print, behind glass framed in a passe-partout, sheet section approx. 29.5 x 24 cm, with frame approx. 54 x 44 cm, 1948 Studies at the FS for Applied Arts Leipzig, from 1949 at the Academy for Graphic Art and Book Trade in Leipzig, which he dropped out in 1951, 1951-54 freelance in Leipzig, 1956-59 chairman VBK in the district of Leipzig, 1961-64 professor and rector of the HGB Leipzig, 1964 because of his criticism of cultural policy dismissed as rector in the GDR, 1964-68 head of the graphics and painting department of the HGB, 1968 resignation and 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