Lithograph by Johannes Maximilian Avenarius of Karl Hanusch.
Lithograph by Johannes Maximillian Avenarious. Signed and dated 19.9.24. There is also an inscription in german. Frustratingly, my German friend could only translate it as 'To .... in memory of our time spent together in the foxhole with gratitude Joh. M. Avenarius
'____ _____ zum Andenken an den gemeinsamen Grun ___ Fuchsloch dankbar Joh. M. Avenarius'
Image size 7.5inch x 6inch
Jan 2010 With thanks to Art of.. and Barbara Robeson for helping with the inscription. I think we have identified the person in the picture.
Karl Hanusch was the Director of the State Art School of Textile Industry Plauen, Saxony. In 1933 he was fired from his post and banned from painting by the Nazi party for being involved in degenerate art 'entartete Kunst' - Avenarious, his friend who taught at the school, was also fired and banned.
A German website devoted to him can be found at www.karl-hanusch.de/ There is another date of 1917 which may be the date when the artists and recipient were together but foxhole may be Fuchsloch in the Czek republic, an in joke or a metaphor. ????
Lithograph by Johannes Maximilian Avenarius of Karl Hanusch.
Lithograph by Johannes Maximillian Avenarious. Signed and dated 19.9.24. There is also an inscription in german. Frustratingly, my German friend could only translate it as 'To .... in memory of our time spent together in the foxhole with gratitude Joh. M. Avenarius
'____ _____ zum Andenken an den gemeinsamen Grun ___ Fuchsloch dankbar Joh. M. Avenarius'
Image size 7.5inch x 6inch
Jan 2010 With thanks to Art of.. and Barbara Robeson for helping with the inscription. I think we have identified the person in the picture.
Karl Hanusch was the Director of the State Art School of Textile Industry Plauen, Saxony. In 1933 he was fired from his post and banned from painting by the Nazi party for being involved in degenerate art 'entartete Kunst' - Avenarious, his friend who taught at the school, was also fired and banned.
A German website devoted to him can be found at www.karl-hanusch.de/ There is another date of 1917 which may be the date when the artists and recipient were together but foxhole may be Fuchsloch in the Czek republic, an in joke or a metaphor. ????