Hegenbarth, Josef (1884 Bohemian Kamnitz - 1962 Dresden)

Lot 2006 limit € 1.500

Ink drawing, illustration for Gustave Flaubert's The Legend of St. Julian the Guestless, Julian slays the dragon from Oberbirbach (1958), signed in lead lower right, rs. Representation of four working men (crossed out) as well as referred to Adventurous Simplicissimus and dated 1958, WVZ Zesch D VII 562, signs of age, sheet approx. 50 x 38 cm, 1908-15 studied at the Dresden Art Academy under 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 (where today the Josef Hegenbarth archive is located), 1924-1936 freelancer for the magazine Die Jugend, 1925-1944 Collaboration with 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 Der Simpl, from 1947 professor at the HBK Dresden // Saxon Artists