Prof. Albert Schaefer-Ast, collection of prints
Four lithographs, "Heiterkeit ist der beste Doktor", pen ...

Prof. Albert Schaefer-Ast, collection of prints
Four lithographs, "Heiterkeit ist der beste Doktor", pen lithograph, signed and dated in the image "Ast (19)47", sheet dimensions approx. 41 x 30 cm; "Das erste Grün", chalk lithograph, signed and dated in the image "Ast (19)46", sheet dimensions approx. 50,5 x 38 cm; mountain landscape, chalk lithograph, signed and dated in the image "Ast (19)47", sheet dimensions approx. 51 x 65 cm and cat, colour lithograph, signed in the image and dated with difficulty "Ast (19)46" (?), sheet dimensions approx. 64 x 50 cm, various conditions. Artist's info: also Albert-Schäfer-Ast, German draughtsman and caricaturist (1890 Barmen to 1951 Weimar), apprenticeship as sculptor, 1906-11 studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule Düsseldorf, worked for various magazines, took part in the 1st World War, 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.