signature p.d.: oaxer
signed on the reverse on canvas p.g.: OTTO AXER | 1967
on the g. strip of the loom sticker: OTTO AXER 1967 | "WENUS AND BIRDS", next to O.A. in marker.
on the l. strip of the loom in marker: m. 4264 A/K, next to it in pen: price 23.690
Image described and reproduced:
- Chris Sztyber, My Second World. My Second World. Polish Painting Collection. Polish Painting Collection, p. 36, color ill.
♣ to the price auctioned, in addition to other costs, will be added a fee resulting from the right of the artist and his heirs to receive remuneration in accordance with the Act of February 4, 1994 - on Copyright and Related Rights (droit de suite)
Otto Axer (Przemyśl 1906 - Warsaw 1983) - studied until 1929 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under Wojciech Weiss and Karol Frycz, then in Paris, where he graduated in 1930. He exhibited from 1929 at home and abroad. In the interwar years, he temporarily used the nickname "Rex." From the early years, parallel to painting, drawing and (occasionally) graphic design, he was involved in stage design. From 1932 he worked with theaters in Lviv, Lodz and Warsaw. During the war he was in the Warsaw ghetto, working as a drawing teacher at the School of Crafts. From the autumn of 1942 he hid with the family of his wife, Bronislawa (née Mroczkowska). 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.
