Beschreibung:

Paunzen (Arthur, 1890-1940). Akt Studie, 1935, etching on wove paper, signed, numbered 3/20, and inscribed 'von der universitäten Platte', some overall toning, plate size 16.5 x 19.7 cm (6.5 x 7.8 ins), framed and glazed, together with another similar etching of a female nude, signed and dated 1933 in the plate, signed in pencil to lower margin, plate size 29.5 x 16.8 cm (11.6 x 6.6 ins), framed and glazed (Qty: 2) Viennese artist Arthur Paunzen and his wife Cornelia Westreich-Paunzen fled Nazi Austria for England in June 1938, but on the 12th/13th May 1940 he was reclassified as an enemy alien, arrested and transported to the central internment camp at Douglas on the Isle of Man, where he died of tuberculosis on the night of the 8th August 1940.