Lithograph on laid paper. Signed in the print, verso purple stamp "Nachlass A Paul Weber" with pencil signature "Christian Weber", red stamp "Clan-Presse". 1983 edition of the estate sheets for the Griffelkunst-Vereinigung.

Sheet each: 50.4 x 38.4 cm.

2 of 45 illustrations for the picaresque novel "Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus" by Hans Jacob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: "Soest" and "Ankunft Paris".

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 906 and 918.