Gustav Schmidt (1888 Peine - 1972 Dresden)

Lot 2149 limit € 40

Woodcut on Japan, hand print, titled Madonna on the left under the print, signed in lead on the right, professionally attached at certain points behind the passe-partout, slight signs of age, sheet approx. 40 x 29.5 cm, with passe-partout approx. 40 x 30 cm, teacher training, After teaching, he studied painting and graphics with Robert Sterl, Osmar Schindler and Carl Bantzer at the Dresden Academy of Art, 1911-13 master student with Otto Gussmann, from 1917 drawing teacher at the Realgymnasium Peine, since 1919 working as a freelance artist in Dresden, characterized by the expressive and influenced by critical realism, Gustav Schmidt often devoted his work to ancient and biblical themes