LUDWIG SCHWERIN Israeli artist, his autograph on photo of his picture, Tel-Aviv

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LUDWIG SCHWERIN Israeli artist,
His autograph in Hebrew – signature and name of picture- on photo of his picture,
Tel-Aviv
WITH STAMP OF PHOTO-ATELIER IN HEBREW AND ENGLISH, TEL-AVIV
DIMENSIONS: 11.7 x 14.2 cm. (4.6 x 5.6″)
Ludwig Schwerin
(born July 10, 1897 in Buchen (Odenwald) † 2 July 1983 in Ramat Gan / Israel) was a painter, graphic artist and book illustrator.
He studied at the Art Academy in Karlsruhe and then worked in Munich and Berlin. In 1938 he fled from Germany to Palestine via Switzerland.
Schwerin painted mainly portraits (such as Stefan Zweig) and landscapes. He also illustrated many books, often with sketches of scenery and was considered one of the most important Israeli painters in the second half of the 20th Century.
This item comes from archive of Gabriel J.Talphir
TALPHIR, GABRIEL JOSEPH
(1901–1990), Hebrew art critic and poet. Talphir was born in Stanislav, Galicia, and after teaching in secondary schools in Vilna and Zamosc immigrated to Palestine in 1925, and from 1932 became editor of Gazit, a periodical for art and literature.
He published poems in Israel’s newspapers and literary journals, as well as essays and articles on literature and art, mostly in Gazit, perhaps the first periodical in Hebrew devoted