Exlibris Bookplate Copperplate Harald Pickert 1901-1983 Abbey Mountains

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Karl and Berta Turetschek. Abbey in the mountains, above books, rose and bird, below initials and coat of arms.
Pickert, Harald (1901-1983):
1952. 110 x 70 mm. Copper engraving.
Language: German
Order number: 13343
Comments: * Vollmer 3; Gutenberg 8261. - Signed and dated in the print. "Harald Pickert attended the Munich School of Applied Arts from 1920 to 1923. In 1928 he moved back to Leitmeritz, where he took over the printing company and publishing house that his grandfather had acquired in 1873. In 1930/31 he studied printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. As the editor and publisher of several regional and national newspapers, he condemned the Nazi regime and its intention to wage war. On the 15th March 1939 the German Wehrmacht occupied the "remaining Czech Republic". October Pickert's office was stormed by members of the SS and the Gestapo. Harald Pickert was imprisoned as a "political prisoner" first in the Mauthausen concentration camp, then in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and finally in the Dachau concentration camp, where he survived until the liberation by the US Army in 1945. After the war, Harald Pickert worked as a graphic artist and painter in Kufstein and created etchings and copperplate engravings, especially miniatures and bookplates, but also landscapes in oil and watercolor. "(Wikipedia) - Small remnants of assembly on the reverse.
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Comments: * Vollmer 3; Gutenberg 8261. - Signed and dated in the print. "Harald Pickert attended the Munich School of Applied Arts from 1920 to 1923. In 1928 he moved back to Leitmeritz, where he took over the printing company and publishing house that his grandfather had acquired in 1873. In 1930/31 he studied printmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. As the editor and publisher of several regional and national newspapers, he condemned the Nazi regime and its intention to wage war. On the 15th March 1939 the German Wehrmacht occupied the "remaining Czech Republic". October Pickert's office was stormed by members of the SS and the Gestapo. Harald Pickert was imprisoned as a "political prisoner" first in the Mauthausen concentration camp, then in the Sachsenhausen concentration cam