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108th | SPRING AUCTION   –   21 | 22 | 23 | 24 February 2024

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WEBER, Andreas Paul (1893 Arnstadt - 1980 Schretstaken)
"Der Gefangene (Mit sich selbst)"
Lithograph on laid paper. Pencil signature, watermark "Clan-Presse". [1966].
Sheet: 65 x 54 cm.
From the series "Gefangene" (Prisoners) - in memory of the artist's Gestapo imprisonment from July 1 to December 15, 1937 in the Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp, Berlin and the Nuremberg police prison: "Gefangener spielt, auf seiner Pritsche sitzend, mit sich Schach. Weber began drawing chess games in prison in 1937 [...] and also played against himself. To do this, he made a chess set out of softened newspaper, using the edges to make the white pieces and the printed parts to make the black pieces. The game, which Weber later kept carefully, is now in the Weber Museum in Ratzeburg." (Quote from Dorsch 1991, catalog raisonné of lithographs, WVZ 777). Minimally creased.
German lithographer, draughtsman and painter, he received the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1971. In 1993, the German Federal Post Office issued a 100 pfennig commemorative stamp with the motif "Audience" in his honor as part of the "German Painting of the 20th Century" series. "I follow an urge and see it as my task to visualize and create what moves, depresses, worries or amuses me. For the most part, I can stick to the facts like a chronicler. But that is the gift: to think in pictures." (Quote: APW, 1967, seen on https://www.weber-museum.de/html).
Literature : Cf. Dorsch WVZ 777.

Aufrufzeit 24. | Feb 2024 | probably 11:01 am (CET)

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