Margarethe Krieger, Oskar Werner as Hamlet, 1985, Lithograph

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Margarethe Krieger

1936 Mannheim – 2010 Heidelberg

"Oskar Werner as Hamlet"

Signed and dated lower right (1985)

Numbered "46/C" lower … Read more Margarethe Krieger

1936 Mannheim – 2010 Heidelberg

"Oskar Werner as Hamlet"

Signed and dated lower right (1985)

Numbered "46/C" lower center

Lithograph on machine-made laid paper ---unframed---

Size: 69.8 x 49.8 cm (sheet)

Provenance: Berthold Zimmermann (born 1935 in Karlsruhe), then mayor of Kraichtal and honorary citizen of Kraichtal. Dedicated to him by the artist lower right "for Erika and Berthold Zimmermann"

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Margarethe Krieger

Painter, draughtswoman, graphic artist, illustrator.

Residered in Heidelberg with her family from early childhood.

Studied at the Karlsruhe Academy of Fine Arts (under Karl Hubbuch).

Krieger taught art education in Weinheim.

In January 2004, she suffered a stroke.

She bequeathed her artistic estate to the city of Kraichtal.

Margarethe Krieger illustrated numerous works of world literature, including Don Quixote, as well as biblical stories and poetry collections.

Central themes in Margarethe Krieger's work were suffering, hardship, maturation, renunciation, and self-examination.

She maintained close relationships with the actors Michel Simon, his son François Simon, and Oskar Werner.

Awards/Honors:

1968 Graphic Arts Prize at the Musée d'Art Moderne (Paris)

1973 International Art Prize for Foreign Arts at the Musée d'Art Moderne (Paris)

1978 Gold Medal of the Italian Academy of Arts

1979 Honorary Award from the Central Association of Social Security Institutions in Germany

1992 Willibald Kramm Prize (Heidelberg) This piece has an attribution mark,
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