Huth, Franz (1876 Poessneck - 1970 Weimar)

Lot 1808 limit € 280

Pastel drawing, view across a street through trees to a church, probably the Martinskirche in Weimar, in the foreground staffage and chickens, signed and dated 1944 lower right, inscribed upper right, behind glass in the frame, verso ibid. label KUNSTHANDLUNG K. Ferd . Heckel, Mannheim [...], sheet section approx. 34 x 48 cm, with frame approx. 43.5 x 57.5 cm, son of the porcelain painter Louis Huth, from 1892 apprenticeship as a porcelain painter in Volkstedt, from 1894 training as a glass painter in the Riesengebirge, 1895-97 studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dresden, from 1903 worked in his father's manufactory, 1911-18 freelance porcelain painter, 1922-1961 worked in Weimar, honorary citizen of his hometown Pößneck