WEBER, A. Paul(1893 Arnstadt - 1980 Schretstaken)

Two pictures with self-portrait

Drawing and lithograph. Each signed in pencil lower right.

31 x 2.5 cm and 21.5 x 18.5 cm. Framed & behind glass : 33 x 27 cm and 23 x 20 cm.

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 "Publikum" in his honor as part of the series "Deutsche Malerei des 20. Jahrhunderts". "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 2451.