Mac Zimmermann

Limited edition etching

Signed by the artist

Figural etching. 60 x 68cm. Framed

Mac Zimmermann, born in Stettin,vbegan to study at the Szczecin factory school for formative work in 1930, after having taken drawing classes.  In 1934, he moved to Hamburg, where he worked as a set designer, illustrator and draftsman.  In 1939, he went to Berlin, where he was excluded from the Reich Chamber of Culture in 1943.

After the war, he had his first major exhibition at Galerie Rosen in Berlin in 1946.  In 1950, he participated in the reestablishment of the Deutsche Künstlerbund, which had been dissolved in 1936, along with Karl Hofer, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Karl Hartung, Willi Baumeister, and others.