Kurt Lob - Litho, Aan de Arti-tafel. - Sold

Kurt Löb was a son (he had a twin brother) of Ludwig Löb (1890-1971) and Gertrud Kuschel (1897-1957), who fled from Berlin to Amsterdam in 1939. After a short stay there they moved to Soest. His father was Jewish, but his mother was not, so young Kurt fell under the mixed marriage group, which was not or less subject to the anti-Jewish measures of the German occupier. From 1942 to 1947 he was educated at the State Academy of Art in Amsterdam. From 1948 to 1953 he studied illustration and typography in the studio of Lettergieterij Amsterdam. From 1957 to 1982 he was a teacher at the Royal Academy of Art and Design in 's-Hertogenbosch. In the years 1973, 1980 and 1984 he was professor at the Internationale Sommerakademie für bildende Kunst in Salzburg. Besides being a painter, he was mainly a draftsman. Löb passed away on June 1, 2015 at the age of 89, having been ill for a long time. He has gained fame as an illustrator of a large number of books. His drawings are reminiscent of the caricatural drawings of Honoré Daumier. From 1979 to 1998 he was the illustrator of a series of twenty books published by the Zetcentrale Meppel in limited editions (less than 500 copies) as New Year's gifts, mainly translations of Russian literature. In 1994 Kurt Löb obtained his doctorate at the University of Amsterdam for his dissertation "Exil-Gestalten" about German bookkeepers in the period 1932-1950.