Heisig, Bernhard (1925 Breslau - 2011 Strodehne)

Lot 9064 limit € 100

Lithograph in reddish brown, A new page (workers with book) 1975/76, signed in lead lower left, from the folder 30 years SDAG Wismut, edition of 50 copies, cf. WV Sander 481/4, framed behind glass, sheet approx. 48 x 34 cm, with frame approx. 65 x 53 cm, 1948 studied at the FS for applied arts in Leipzig, from 1949 at the Academy for Graphic Arts and Book Trade in Leipzig, which he dropped out in 1951, 1951-54 freelance in Leipzig, 1956-59 Chairman VBK in the Leipzig district, 1961-64 professor and rector of the HGB Leipzig, 1964 dismissed as rector due to his criticism of the cultural policy of the GDR, 1964-68 head of the graphics and painting department of the HGB, 1968 termination with subsequent freelance work, counts alongside Werner Tübke and Wolfgang Mattheuer are among the most important representatives of the Leipzig School and one of the most important representatives of GDR art. His students include Arno Rink and Neo Rauch