Sale: 359 / Rare Books including Marine Art, Nov. 16./17. 2009 in Hamburg Lot 83

Carl Ernst Fischer - Buchtraum, 1947


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Carl Ernst Fischer
Buchtraum, 1947
Estimate:
€ 200 / $ 214
Sold:
€ 180 / $ 192

(incl. surcharge)
Fischer, C. E. - [Der Büchertraum]. Coloured lithograph, signed and with autogr. date. 1947. Size ca. 31 : 47 cm.
Fine graphic work by the Frankfurt drawer, illustrator and commercial artist Carl Ernst Fischer ("Cefischer"; 1900-1974). He worked, among other, for the Fliegenden- and the Lustigen Blätter and was editor and press drawer of the Frankfurter Illustrierten as of 1937. In an air raid in 1945 he lost both arms and learned to draw with his mouth; the drawing for this lithograph was made during this time. - Size of paper ca. 44,5 : 57,5 cm. Paper somewhat irregularly trimmed, 1 corner with minor defective spot, with mounting remains on verso.
Fine coloured lithograph, signed and with date autogr. by the Frankfurt drawer, illustrator and commercial artist Carl Ernst Fischer ("Cefischer"; 1900-1974), who had lost both arms in an air raid in 1945 and learned to draw with his mouth; the drawing for this lithograph was made during this time. - Paper somewhat irregularly trimmed, 1 corner with minor defective spot, with mounting remains on verso.




83
Carl Ernst Fischer
Buchtraum, 1947
Estimate:
€ 200 / $ 214
Sold:
€ 180 / $ 192

(incl. surcharge)