Five lithographs on wove paper
Germany, 1970 to 1980
A. Paul Weber (1893-1980) – German graphic artist, painter and draftsman
Four sheet each signed lower right in pencil ‘A. Paul Weber’
One sheet signed in the print and marked with the estate stamp and estate signature by Christiane Weber on verso
Three sheets each typographically dated in the stone
Each with the stamp of Clan-Presse
Editions of Griffelkunst-Vereinigung Hamburg
Catalog raisonné: Dorsch 275, 319, 858, 2341 und 2485
Image dimensions: from 26 x 24 cm to 25.1 x 39 cm
Time criticism and satire is the characteristic of the graphic oeuvre by A. Paul Weber; copies of such famous lithographs as ‘Rumor’ fetch up to €3,500 at auctions.

This collection of five lithographs, which were published between 1970 and 1980 at Griffelkunst-Association in Hamburg, comprises the following titles: ‘Aus Igelhausen: Auf der Ofenbank‘ (Dorsch 275, Griffelkunst 220 C5), ‘Die beiden Anwälte‘ (Dorsch 319, Griffelkunst E 71), ‘Geteilter Meinung‘ (Dorsch 858, Griffelkunst 211 C2), ‘der stolze Kaspar‘ (Dorsch 2341, Griffelkunst 211 C4) and

‘… und segne, was du uns bescheret hast‘ (Dorsch 2485, Griffelkunst 211 C5).

The five lithographs are each signed lower right in pencil ‘A. Paul Weber’, one sheet is signed in the print and marked with the estate stamp and the estate signature by Christiane Weber on verso. Three sheets are typographically dated on the stone. Three sheets are darkened along the sheet edges. Two others bear significant creases in the left margin, one additionally with faint linear yellowing. The images measure from 26 x 24 cm to 25.1 x 39 cm, the sheets from 65 x 50.3 cm to 64.5 x 51 cm.

A. Paul Weber (1893-1980)

A. Paul Weber attended for a short period of time the Kunstgewerbeschule Erfurt. He was a member of the Romanticist youth movement ‘Jung-Wandervogel’. During many hikes with the group he received a lot of inspiration for the nature depictions in his works and he started creating his first autodidactic lithographs. He served in the military service during the First World War. He was able to work as a draughtsman at the Eastern frontier for the magazine of the 10th Army.

Allover, A. Paul Weber leaves a comprehensive graphic and lithographic body of work.

A large number of designs for book illustrations of Reineke Fucks, Hans Sachs, Till Eulenspiegel and Münchhausen are his. He was the publisher of the magazine ‘Kritischer Kalender’. Additionally, he worked for Ernst Niekisch’s magazine ‘Widerstand’ (= opposition), which was connected to an opposition movement in the scope of which Weber was arrested in 1937 and came to the concentration camp in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel; he then was imprisoned for six months in Berlin and Nuremberg. Weber also had to serve in the military in the Second World War. In 1971, he was honored with the Große Verdienstkreuz and got appointed as a professor. In 1973, the A. Paul Weber. (fea)

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