Metzkes, Harald (1929 Bautzen - active in Atlandsberg near Berlin)

Lot 2008 limit € 20

...Who can see the truth naked?, Illustrations to the fables "Carelessness" (Gellert), "The Parnassus" (Iwan Krylow), "The robbed fable" (MG Lichtwer), "Pyreneus and the Muses" (Daniel Schiebeler) and "Die Furien" (Lessing), wood engravings by Harald Metzkes printed from the original printing blocks, each signed by hand and partly (19)82 dated, Leipzig: Verlag Karl Quach, 5 sheets, 8°, loose sheets in orig. slipcase, spine in orig. Linen, nice collectible condition, 1949-53 studied painting at the HfbK Dresden with Wilhelm Lachnit and Rudolf Bergander, 1955-58 master student with Otto Nagel at the Academy of Arts in Berlin, together with Manfred Böttcher, Ursula Wendorff-Weidt, Hans Vent , Lothar Böhme, Konrad Knebel and Werner Stötzer representatives of the "Berlin School"