Lot: 8246
Date of sale: 3. Tue Sep 2024
Alfred Beier-Red (1902-2001), importan
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Alfred Beier-Red (1902-2001), important German caricaturist, worked mainly for the communist press, such as ”Die Rote Post”, ”Die Rote Fahne” etc., to protect himself from reprisals he usually signed with the pseudonym ”Red”. He was a co-founder of the ”Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists” and from 1946 he worked mainly for ”Neues Deutschland”. His original drawings and graphics are represented in the German Historical Museum, among others, but are rarely found on the market. Anti-Pinochet caricature, ”My hands are clean – there is no murder in Chile”, Pinochet enthroned above a sea of corpses, ink on wove paper, 1977, signed top right, titled on bottom edge, stamped on verso, marginal tears, sheet measures 43.5 x 42 cm
Category: Contemporary Arts