Emil Pottner - The new fighter. Original lithograph 1915

Emil Pottner: Cock and Eagle ("The New Champion"). Original lithograph 1915. Image size 26.3 x 22.3 cm, sheet size 40.5 x 32 cm, from the portfolio "Original Stone Drawings of the Berlin Secession", Julius Bard, Berlin 1915. On the lower edge with the sign of the Berlin Secession and typographically inscribed "Emil Pottner: The New Champion", signed in the stone. Reference: Söhn HdO (Manual of the Original Graphics) No. 43212-3 (with illustration).
Emil Pottner, child of a Jewish acting family, was born in 1872. He joined the Berlin Secession in 1904 and was elected to the board in 1913. He was banned from his profession in 1933 and had his last exhibition in the Jewish Museum on Oranienburger Strasse in Berlin Mitte in 1935. He lived in Petzow on the Havel. As a result of the work ban imposed on Jews by the Nazi regime, Pottner had to give up his ceramics workshop in Charlottenburg at the end of 1933. In 1938 he had to sell his property in Petzow, where he had created his garden pictures and woodcuts. On July 24, 1942 he was deported to Theresienstadt, from there to Treblinka on September 26 and then to the Maly Trostinez extermination camp. His last sign of life dates from September 28, 1942.