Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

Lot 9062 limit € 60

Fiber pen on cardboard, portrait drawing, originally a thank you card on the occasion of the artist's 60th birthday, signed in the drawing and provided with the number 60, trimmed right edge, slight signs of age, sheet approx. 15 x 10 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 of the VBK in the district of Leipzig, 1961-64 professor and rector of the HGB Leipzig, 1964 because of his criticism of dismissed as rector because of the cultural policy of 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 the GDR Art, among his students are Arno Rink and Neo Rauch // GDR art, Saxon artists