Woodcut in red and black on cardboard, titled Bettler in pencil lower left, signed on the right, slight signs of age, 2 x min. holes from the printing block, sheet approx. 70 x 50 cm, 1941 student at the art academy in Königsberg with Alfred particles, 1946 -50 studies at the HBK Weimar, influenced by Max Pechstein, Erich Heckel and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, among others, from 1950 master student with Otto Herbig, then lecturer for color design and life drawing ibid., from 1954 working as a freelance painter and graphic artist in his hometown of Gersdorf , from 1960 lecturer at the technical school for applied arts in Schneeberg, 1999 Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class for his life's work and numerous other honors and prizes
