Gruner, Rudi (1909 Chemnitz - 1984 Karl-Marx-Stadt)

Lot 2001 limit € 180

Charcoal and tempera on cardboard, workers at the melting furnace in a steel factory in an expressive play of light and shadow, slight signs of age (including browned, insignificant trace of folds in the middle), verso inscription Rudi Gruner, sheet approx. 30 x 61 cm, belongs to the so-called lost generation of expressive realists , 1939 exhibition in the Chemnitz Kunsthütte with Martha Schrag, Heinrich Brenner, Bruno Ziegler and Marianne Brandt, freelance after 1945, close contact with the Chemnitz artist group, illustrated for the Reclam publishing house, among others, 1984 awarded the Hans Grundig Medal