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ERICH WOLFSFELD (German / 1884-1956)

Erich Wolfsfeld was among the many Jewish and dissident artists who had to flee Nazi Germany to escape persecution. Wolfsfeld was born in Berlin. He was already established as an artist before WWI, contributing original art to revues such as Die Graphischen Kunste. During WWI he was an officer in the German Army, but continued to draw, recording scenes of the lives of ordinary soldiers on the Western Front. In 1939 Erich Wolfsfeld fled to England, where he died in 1956. The paintings and etchings surviving at his death were then put into storage and forgotten, until their chance rediscovery in 2009. Wolfsfeld had not been completely forgotten, having been championed by the Belgrave Gallery, who published the catalogue raisonné The Etchings of Erich Wolfsfeld by Elizabeth Furness in 1979. Our etching by Erich Wolfsfeld dates from his earliest period, and was published in 1914.