Walter Becker

Untitled Composition (Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature)

Walter Becker’s original lithograph, "Untitled Composition" depicts two metamorphosed Women with a mythological creature. It is printed upon thick wove paper and with full deckled margins as published by the Guilde Internationale de la Gravure, Geneva, Switzerland in an edition of two hundred s around 1953. This is signed, dated and numbered in pencil by the artist along the lower margin. It also contains the impressed publisher's seal (G.G. in a circle - 'Guilde Gravure'). This abstract composition represents a superb, original example of the important twentieth century art created by the German artist, Walter Becker.

Untitled Composition
(Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature)

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Title:	Untitled Composition (Two Metamorphosed Women with a Mythological Creature)
Artist:	Becker, Walter (Essen, 1893 - Diessen, Germany, 1984)
Date:	1953
Medium:	Original Lithograph in Colors
Publisher:	La Guilde Internationale de la Gravure, Geneva
Note:	Walter Becker: A major German printmaker and painter, particularly of the post war era, Walter Becker first studied at the School of Arts and Crafts, Essen, from 1910 to 1913. Between 1915 and 1918 he was a student at the Karlsruhe Academy. From 1919 to 1922 Walter Becker worked as a free lance artist for the Karlsruhe Majolica Manufacture and then concluded his studies at the Dresden Art Academy, under Karl Albiker.
	In 1924 Walter Becker moved to Cassis-sur-mer, in the South of France, and remained there for the following eleven years. During this period his art was extensively exhibited through France and Becker's friends and neighbours included such artists as Braque, Grosz and Pascin and such writers and composers as Thomas Mann, Kurt Weill and Paul Hindemith.
	Walter Becker returned to Germany in 1936 and set up his home and studio in Buehl, Baden. Unfortunately the Nazi regime was growing in power and the following year his abstract and expressionist art was classified as 'degenerate'. Thus his paintings, lithographs, woodcuts and etchings were removed from public museums and often burned. The artist moved to Tutzing, at Lake Starnberg, in 1938. He had been appointed an instructor at the Karlsruhe Academy, but the position was denied by the National Socialists..
	After the Second World War, Walter Becker served as a professor of art at Karlsruhe Academy (1952 - 1958). During the artist's later years he lived in Tutzing and, finally, Diessen.
	In his important abstract art, Walter Becker creates a form of personal mythology. Forms (specifically female) are metamorphosed into both animal and human elements and delineated by basic cubist or geometric shapes. In a fascinating, way such a thoroughly unique and modernist image as this original lithograph bears an affinity with ancient Egyptian wall paintings.
	This original color lithograph was commissioned by the Guilde Internationale de la Gravure, Geneva, Switzerland. During the early 1950's this fine arts publisher commissioned prints from such artists as Anthony Gross, S. W. Hayter, Walter Becker, Marcel Fiorini, Alfred Manessier and Fernand Leger. All were published in hand-signed editions of 200 s and bear the publisher's seal in the lower margins.
Edition:	Limited edition of two hundred s, numbered '106/200'.
Size:	17 1/2 X 13 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $975.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon thick wove paper and with full deckled margins as published around 1953 in the limited edition of 200 s. Pencil signed, dated and numbered, 106/200, by the artist along the lower margin. Also, in the extreme lower left margin of the paper the impressed publisher's seal (G.G. in a circle - 'Guilde Gravure') is evident. Containing mat burning in the outer margin as well as slight water staining, else the actual image is in good condition throughout with strong, unfaded colors. The large, original lithograph represents a superb, original example of the important twentieth century art of Walter Becker.
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