BERNDT, Siegfried(1880 Görlitz – 1946 Dresden)

Winter Landscape

Color woodcut. Inscribed “Eigenhanddruck” (printed by the artist) in the lower left corner; signed in pencil in the lower right corner.

Mat cutout 21 x 20.5 cm. Framed & under glass : 37.5 x 35.5 cm.

Beautiful color woodcut featuring various color gradients of a sunset. Tanned, restored.

Studied from 1899 to 1906 at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts under Eugen Bracht. The artist served as a war artist during World War I. Despite his membership in the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts during the Nazi era, some of his works were classified as “degenerate art.” Berndt’s style features Impressionist and Expressionist elements, as well as, later on, those of New Objectivity; today he is counted among the artists of the “lost generation.”