FRITZ SCHIRRMACHER (Bartoszyce 1893 - 1948 Hamburg) Africa, around 1925 gouache and pencil/paper 15 x 34.2 cm signed Schirrmacher inscribed frieze design ESTIMATE °€ 200 - € 300 STARTING PRICE € 200 Fritz Schirrmacher was a German artist. After an apprenticeship as a painter and decorator in his hometown of Bartenstein, Eartern Prussia, he studied at the Kunstgewerbeschule (school for arts and crafts) in Hamburg. Between 1919 and 1927, he attended the class of Julius Wohlers and Willy von Beckerath. Then he made a study trip to West Africa. Around 1930, he moved into a studio together with the sculptors Herbert Mhe, Richard Haizmann, Karl Schümann, Paul Henle and the painter Otto Thämer. Fritz Schirrmacher died in Hamburg in 1948. A lot of his works show common people like papergirls and craftsmen and subjects from St. Pauli in Hamburg. The oeuvre of Fritz Schirrmacher is characterised by a strict objectivity showing people in harmony and attachment with their surroundings. Further artists and styles: expressionism, Herbert Mhe, Richard Haizmann, Paul Henle, Otto Thämer, Julius Wohlers, Willy von Beckerath PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights. In the case of normal taxation (marked °), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax of 13%, for photographys 20%, is added to the sum of the highest bid and, the buyer's premium. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.