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131 - Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber*
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Estimate €80 - €150
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Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber* (Rot an der Rot 1909 – 1981, Eininger near Achalm) Set of 2 Spektrum magazines 1| 15th Year, No. 58, March 1973 2| Special Edition for the Dürer Year 1971 featuring original woodcuts by HAP Grieshaber Complete Edition ESTIMATE €80 – €150 STARTING PRICE €80 German graphic artist, painter and sculptor of the 20th century. Born on 15 February 1909 as Helmut Andreas Paul Grieshaber in Rot an der Rot (Upper Swabia), he completed an apprenticeship as a typesetter in Reutlingen from 1924 to 1927 and studied at the Stuttgart School of Applied Arts under Ernst Schneidler; He travelled to London, Paris, Egypt and Greece from 1931 to 1933; was banned from exhibiting by the Nazis in 1933; served in the Wehrmacht from 1940 to 1945; had a studio on the Achalm near Eningen from 1946; professor at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Art from 1955 to 1960. Grieshaber revitalised woodcut as a monumental medium, combining line and surface cuts with archaic, rhythmic forms, sacred motifs and political criticism; large-scale projects such as ‘Totentanz von Basel’ (1947–1950), murals (documenta III, 1964), reliefs and stained-glass windows; editor of the magazine ‘Engel der Geschichte’. Related artists and terms: Ernst Schneidler, Erich Heckel, Emil Nolde, Max Klinger, Margarete Hannsmann, Heinrich Böll, Walter Warnach, Upper Swabian art, woodcut renaissance, monumental graphics, Achalm, Reutlingen, documenta, Jerg Ratgeb Prize, Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts, Bernsteinschule Sulz PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price comprises the highest bid plus the buyer’s premium, VAT and, where applicable, the artists’ resale rights fee and platform fee. In the case of standard taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The statutory sales tax of 13 per cent (20 per cent for photographs) is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer’s premium and the platform fee. The buyer’s premium amounts to 28 per cent in the case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.
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Auction time 09/30/2026 at 10:00 AM
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