Painting, Graphics, Illustration · 1899–1978 · 1 work in the collection
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Ulrich Hallerstede was born in Darmstadt in 1899, where he also died in 1978. After attending an art school, he studied graphic design and illustration with Hugo Steiner-Prag in Leipzig and subsequently at the Academy in Munich. From the 1920s onwards, he worked in Darmstadt as a painter, graphic designer and illustrator and was a member of the 'Darmstadt Group'; he illustrated works by Maxim Gorky, Wilhelm Hauff and Edgar Allan Poe for bibliophile small editions. From 1930, he also worked as a commercial graphic designer for the Merck company; numerous watercolors were created during his travels to the south.
In the collection: "Landschaft mit Kopfweiden" / "A landscape with willows".
Technique: Oil / canvas.
