Flinzer, Fedor Alexis (1832 Reichenbach - 1911 Leipzig)

Lot 2009 limit € 90

Sketch sheet, pencil on paper, representation of a ballerina with a cat's head, plus two monkey studies, on the back different male figures held in motion, rs. Inscribed in lead "Fedor Flinzer", attached to cardboard behind passe-partout, signs of age (including creases, irregularly browned, traces of glue), sheet approx. 33 x 20.5 cm, draftsman, illustrator, animal painter and drawing teacher, studied from 1849 at the Dresden University Academy with Ludwig Richter, Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld and Ernst Julius Hähnel, among others, from 1859 active as a drawing teacher at the Chemnitz Realschule and co-founder of the association "Kunsthütte" ibid., from 1873 as municipal drawing inspector, responsible for the curriculum and hiring drawing teachers for the city, among other things Leipzig, 1876 publication of the "textbook(s) of drawing lessons", 1895 award of the title of professor, is considered the forerunner of the so-called "art education movement" around the turn of the century, known for its humanized, mostly harmless-humoristic, sometimes satirical depictions of animals, exhibitions on his illustrative work in Troisdorf (picture book museum), Dresden (museum for Saxon folk art), Reichenba, among others ch/Vogtland (Neuberin Museum), Bad Pyrmont (museum in the castle) and Bad Salzuflen (city and spa museum)