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Nils Graf Stenbock-Fermor 1904-1969
A Serenade c.1930
Berlin
Pencil on paper; Nachlass stamp, verso
19 x 14 cm
Nils Graf Stenbock-Fermor (born 1904 Nitau by Riga; died 1969 Hamburg)
Draughtsman, caricaturist, painter and author, Stenbock spent his childhood in Riga.
It was there that he gained his first art certificates during the time of the revolution.
After training in Hamburg with the Otto-Meisner publishing house he went to Berlin.
There he worked with Emil Orlik and contributed to the magazine Jugend. During the thirties
he was set designer to the Berlin stages of the famous theatre director Erin Piscator.
These revues at the Central Theatre in Berlin-Kreuzberg define the high point of political
mass theatre in the Weimar Republic. He made many portraits of the most famous actors of that
legendary epoch as well as his numerous stage designs. He later supplied the publishing
house of Flensburger Wolff with book illustrations
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