Ehmsen, Heinrich (1886 Kiel - 1964 Berlin)

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Etching, soldiers in barbed wire, monogrammed and dated (19)25 in print lower right, behind passe-partout and glass in frame, sheet section approx. 12 x 17 cm, with frame approx. 27 x 33 cm, 1906-09 training as a decorative painter at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf with Peter Behrens, Fritz Helmut Ehmcke and JLM Lauweriks, 1910 to 1911 studied at the Academie Colarossi in Paris, 1911 moved to Munich, influences of the Blue Rider, worked in Berlin from 1929, 1945 with Karl Hofer founded the HfbK in Berlin- Charlottenburg, until 1949 deputy director and head of the department of free art ibid., from 1950 teacher of the master class for painting at the DAK in East Berlin