Lithograph. Pencil signature. [1950].

Sheet: 41.3 x 54.5 cm.

After a colored drawing from the series "Leviathan"; several drawings of this motif were already created from 1940. Marginal area creased.

German lithographer, draughtsman and painter, he was awarded 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 : WVZ Dorsch 584.