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HERMANN STRUCK
1876 - 1944 (German)
Portrait of Arnold Zweig
Original Hand Signed Etching
Title : Portrait of Arnold Zweig.
Technique : Original Etching on laid paper.
Paper Size : 24 X 18 cm / 9.4 X 7.1 inch.
Plate Size: 15 X 11 cm / 5.9 X 4.3 inch.
Additional Information : This Etching is Hand Signed in pencil by the artist "Hermann Struck" at the lower left margin.
The work is also Hand Numbered in pencil "2/50" next to the signature.
The name of Arnold Zweig is written in pencil at the lower right margin.
The Etching is Dated "1932" and signed with the initials of the artist in the plate in the lower left corner.
Arnold Zweig (November 10, 1887 - November 26, 1968) was a German writer and an active pacifist.
He was born in Glogau (today Glogow, Poland) as a son of a Jewish saddler. After attending a gymnasium in Kattowitz (Katowice), he made extensive studies in several universities - Breslau (Wroclaw), Munich, Berlin, Göttingen, Rostock and Tübingen. He was especially influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche's thinking.
His first literary works Novellen um Claudia and Ritualmord in Ungarn gain him wider recognition.
He took part in WW I and he was converted by his experience from a Prussian patriot to an eager pacifist. By the end of the war he was assigned to the Press department of the German Army Headquarters in Kaunas and there he was first introduced to the East European Jewish organisations.
After the WW I he was an active socialistic zionist in Germany. After the Hitler's coup in 1923 Zweig went to Berlin and worked there as the editor-in-chief of a newspaper "Jüdischen Rundschau". From 1929 he was a contributing journalist of anti-Nazi newspaper Die Weltbühne (World Stage). When the Nazis took over the power in 1933 he was forced into exile, first to Czechoslovakia, then Switzerland and France. After spending some time with Thomas Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Anna Seghers and Bertolt Brecht in France he set out to Palestine. In Haifa, Palestine he published a German newspaper "Orient". During the years spent in Palestine he became disillusioned with Zionism and turned to socialism. In 1948 he decided to return to the Soviet Zone (later called the GDR).
In East Germany he was in many ways involved in the communist system. He was a member of parliament, delegate to the World Peace Council Congresses and the cultural advisory board of the communist party. He was President of the German Academy of the Arts from 1950-53. He is rewarded with many prizes and medals by the regime. From 1962 due to health reasons he virtually withdrew from the political and artistic fields.
He died in East Berlin on the 26 November, 1968.
Condition : Very Good condition, discoloration of the paper.
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