Pastel, Gouache & Charcoal with gold powder addition on cardboard signed “BK-57” on bottom right. Provenance : Private Swedish collection. Bernhard Kretzschmar did sign most of the time with such a monogram (like on the 1919 Rest on the Run Oil canvas 54x70cm Hauswedell & Nolte Hamburg 15-6-2002 lot 1408). From 1955 to 1972 he mainly drew colored pictures like this piece. Works by Kretzschmar are in many
museums like Barcelona, Madrid, ​​Berlin, Bremen, Dresden, Essen, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne, Copenhagen, Leipzig, Mannheim, Munich, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Saarbrücken, Vienna, Winterthur, Zurich,
Zwickau. He later received the GDR National Prize for his graphics & coloristic self-portraits in 1959.