Description
Watercolor, ink, gouache, paper; 27.5 x 20 cm (p-light)
Cover design, Czytelnik Publishing House, 1954
Asking price 1000
Estimate 1500 - 1800
◙ droit de suite
Auction 209, 29.01.2022
Otto AXER
1906 Przemyśl - 1983 Warsaw
Studied until 1929 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Wojciech Weiss and Karol Frycz, then in Paris, where he finished his studies in 1930. He exhibited from 1929 at home and abroad. From his early years, parallel to painting, drawing and (occasionally) graphic design, he was involved in stage design. From 1932 he worked with theaters in Lvov, Lodz and Warsaw. During the war he was in the Warsaw Ghetto, working as a drawing teacher at the School of Crafts. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising, after which he was deported as a prisoner of war to an oflag in Magdeburg. From 1945 to 1949 he was in Lodz, where he worked at the Polish Army Theater, and from 1947 also as a professor at the State Higher School of Theater Arts. From 1949 he lived in Warsaw, where he also taught at the theater school (1949-53). He worked as a stage designer and director at the Polish Theater until 1972.
