Walther Gasch, "Charon" - photo 1
Walther Gasch, "Charon" - photo 1

Walther Gasch, "Charon"

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Auction dateClassic
30.05.2020 10:00UTC +02:00
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Auktionshaus Mehlis GmbH
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ID 326256
Lot 3727 | Walther Gasch, "Charon"
Charon, hier in Form eines jungen Fährmannes, bringt eine nackte junge Frau über den Totenfluss Acheron in das Reich des Hades, Aquarell und Deckfarben auf leichtem Karton, unten rechts signiert, datiert und bezeichnet „Walther Gasch 1920 Glasfenster“ sowie mittig betitelt „Charon“, oben rechts nochmals monogrammiert und datiert, rückseitig bezeichnet, minimale Altersspuren, Blattmaße ca. 64,5 x 48,8 cm. Künstlerinfo: auch Walter Gasch, dt. Maler, Zeichner, Graphiker, Restaurator, Autor und NS-Funktionär (1886 Leipzig bis ca. 1962 Nentershausen-Dens bei Bebra), studierte ab 1905 an der Akademie Dresden bei Emanuel Hegenbarth und Oskar Zwintscher, hier Meisterschüler bei Gotthardt Kuehl und später bei Richard Müller, unternahm Studienreisen nach Holland, Frankreich und Italien, ab 1929 Assistent für Licht- und Tiefdruck an der Hochschule für Graphik und Buchkunst Leipzig tätig, als sächsischer Gaufachgruppenleiter der Bildenden Künste der NSDAP ab 1933 maßgeblicher Initiator der restriktiven NS-Kulturpolitik in Dresden, Mitglied der Dresdner Kunstgenossenschaft, Vorstandsmitglied im Reichsverband Bildender Künstler Deutschlands und Mitglied des "Deutschen Künstlerverbandes Dresden", beschickte 1939 die große Deutsche Kunstausstellung im Haus der Deutschen Kunst München, tätig in Dresden, Quelle: Vollmer, Dressler, Schülerlisten der Dresdner Akademie und Tsuḳerman "Geschichte und bildende Kunst – Jahrbuch 2006 für Deutsche Geschichte".
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