Code: 11343
Original German Expressionist woodblock "Liegende Katz" by Georg Schrimpf (1889-1938)
Georg Schrimpf was a German painter and graphic artist.
Along with Otto Dix, George Grosz and Christian Schad, Schrimpf is broadly acknowledged as a main representative of the art movement Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity)
This art movement in Weimar Germany, from 1919 to 1933, was as an outgrowth of Expressionism.
Overall dimensions inc frame: 13.5" by 11.5". Innermost woodblock image approx 6" by 4"
Examples of his work are held at MoMA in New York.
A similar example of this woodcut is held the Lenbachhaus Museum in Munich - see link below
Lenbachhaus example
