Paul Citroen - Litho "Christ"

Christi captured by Paul Citroen. Published in a folder of lithographs in December 1976 on the occasion of the 80th birthday of the artist Paul Citroen. The people portrayed in the folder are: Mara - Lyda - Ella - Jan Cremer - Piet Clement - Mieke - Mart Kempers - Ellenor - Nora - W. Sandberg - Anneloor & Christi. (Only 1 is offered) The lithograph was printed by Piet Clement in Amsterdam and Henk van Leeuwen in Delft. This is number 91 of 100 copies. Hand signed and numbered by Paul Citroen. Dutch painter, graphic artist, photographer, writer and teacher Paul Citroen was born on 15 December 1896 in Berlin. His father, who came from Amsterdam, had a fur business in Berlin. Citroen described the environment in which he grew up as bourgeois. "For me, a certain stability, a certain peace, emanates from the bourgeois, because I cannot fully understand how bourgeois I am myself, but I am a moderate person because I know so well what temptation there is in fanaticism." Berlin In the family, much attention was paid to art and culture, especially literature. Citroen began drawing a lot early in life. This was encouraged by his parents. With a school friend - Erwin Blumenfeld, who would later become a well-known photographer - he later carried out photographic experiments. Citroen studied at the Kunsthochschule in Berlin. He became interested in the avant-garde that was developing in Berlin. He also started his own collection of contemporary art, bought with a sum of money donated by his father.