Josef Hegenbarth

"I can't talk with words, I talk with brush and pen." With a few lines and contours Hegenbarth succeeded in capturing the type of a person. From 1950 on, he often painted them in one go without setting down the pen or brush. He took his motifs from the everyday world, which he found in his adopted home of Dresden from 1905. He also excelled as an illustrator of literary works. In addition to cafés and street scenes, animals in circuses and zoos were also popular subjects. (EW)

LITERATURE: - Fritz Löffler, Josef Hegenbarth, Verlag der Kunst Dresden, 1980. - Josef Hegenbarth. Spectators of Life. Works from 1915 to 1962 in the Graphic Cabinet of the Staatliche Galerie Moritzburg Halle, ed. by Bärbel Zausch, Halle (Saale) 1996.