Josef Weisz - LAZARUS and the ARME 1921 signed

Woodcut, 21.5 x 18.5 cm (35 x 31 cm the sheet) on laid paper.
Signed in pencil.
Monogrammed and dated 1921 in the print at the top right.
Loose under passe-partout, 50 x 34 cm.
Traces of mounting on the edges, passe-partout with slight crease.
The woodcut is in very good condition.

Josef Weisz - 1894 in Munich - 1969 in Planegg was a wood cutter and book illustrator.
Josef Weisz was born in Munich in 1894 as the son of the master tailor Josef Weiss. In 1909 he began an apprenticeship as a goldsmith. Under pressure from his father, he becomes a tailor's apprentice. From 1913 to 1916 Weisz was a student of Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke at the Munich School of Applied Arts in writing and bookmaking.
From 1916 to 1918 Weisz served at the front in the First World War. The War Sketchbook, an art portfolio with 195 drawings of landscapes and people in Russia, France and Belgium, was also created here. As early as the 1920s, the Berlin Museum of Decorative Arts and the German Library in Leipzig exhibited his expressionist works. Weisz's work was increasingly sought after for illustrations of books. He created 35 lithographs of Goethe's Faust. In 1932 the Klingspor brothers in Offenbach reprinted Goethe's “Metamorphosis of Plants” and Josef Weisz created twelve woodcuts as an appendix.
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