Leilão Bidspirit | Prof. Walther Klemm, Lynx


Prof. Walther Klemm, Lynx - Prof. Walther Klemm, Lynx Sitting on a branch, looking at the viewer, woodcut, 1928, signed ”W Klemm” in pencil below the image on the right, somewhat brown-stained and creased at the upper edge of the sheet, dimensions of the image approx. 20 x 25 cm, dimensions of the sheet approx. 25 x 35 cm. Artist's info: German painter, graphic artist and illustrator (1885 Karlsbad [Karlovy Vary] to 1957 Weimar), studied art history at the University of Vienna with Julius von Schlosser 1901-04, at the same time studied at the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Vienna with Anton von Kenner, Kolo Moser, F. Myrbach and others, 1905 participation in the exhibition of the Vienna Secession and move to Prague, 1906 studio community with Carl Thiemann in Libotz near Prague, from 1908 in the artists' colony Dachau, 1910 member of the Berlin Secession, 1913 appointment as professor at the Weimar Academy, undertook numerous study trips, received several honours, among others honorary senator of the Weimar College of Architecture and Building in 1952, member of the Association of Visual Artists (VBK) of the GDR, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Eisold ”Künstler in der DDR”, Dressler and Internet.