Hegenbarth, Josef (1884 Bohemian Kamnitz - 1962 Dresden)

Lot 2005 limit € 250

Drypoint etching, sheet 13 from the illustrations for the Nibelungenlied (1922), tournament fights before King Etzel and Kriemhild, signed in lead under the depiction and labeled as a test print, with the verse provided by hand It was at the same hour when Etzel was standing with her , there did young heroes, as still happens in the country: some races now and then one saw all there ridden, from the 22nd adventure, evenly tanned, depiction approx. 28 x 25 cm, sheet approx. 45 x 36 cm, 1908-1915 Studied at the Dresden Art Academy with Carl Bantzer, Oskar Zwintscher and Gotthardt Kuehl, 1914 first exhibition with Emil Richter in Dresden, since 1915 member of the Dresden Artists' Association, 1921 purchase of a house in Dresden-Loschwitz (now the Josef Hegenbarth Archive there), 1924-1936 freelancer for the magazine Die Jugend, 1925-1944 worked for Simplicissimus, from 1926 member of the Vienna Secession, from 1929 member of the Prague Secession, after World War II employee of the magazines Ulenspiegel and D he Simpl, from 1947 professor at the HBK Dresden // Saxon artists