Auction 110 - Tag 3
Fine Art, Ceramics, Metalware & Sculptures
By Auktionshaus Mehlis
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May 27, 2023
Hammerstraße 30, 8523 Plauen, Germany
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LOT 3957:
Prof. Albert Schaefer-Ast, Frau am Tisch
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Sold for: €150
Start price:
€
80
Buyer's Premium: 27%
VAT: 19%
On commission only
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Prof. Albert Schaefer-Ast, Frau am Tisch
A young woman sitting at a table in front of a window, watercolour and opaque white, signed and dated "Ast (19)47" lower right, stamp on the reverse "Nachlass Prof. Schaefer-Ast *7.1.1890 +15.9.1951" as well as handwritten number "16" and signature, mounted on backing cardboard, paper wavy due to production, sheet dimensions approx. 29.5 x 21 cm. Artist's info: also Albert-Schäfer-Ast, German draughtsman and caricaturist (1890 Barmen to 1951 Weimar), apprenticeship as a sculptor, 1906-11 studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf, worked for several magazines, participated in World War I, was dismissed by the National Socialists as an artist. World War I, classified as degenerate by the National Socialists and partially banned from working and exhibiting, active again under restrictions from the mid-1930s, lost his flat in a bombing raid on Berlin in 1943, moved to Prerow on the Darß, worked again as a caricaturist for the Ulenspiegel from 1946, appointed professor at the State College of Architecture and Fine Arts in Weimar, Source: Vollmer, Eisold "Künstler in der DDR" and Wikipedia.
