Der Totentanz beginnt. 1933.
Watercolor on paper.
Lower rigth monogrammed. Verso inscribed with title, date and "17". On wove paper. 47.5 x 36 cm (18.7 x 14.1 in), the full sheet. [EH].

• Typical critical depiction of a cafe scene from the year of the Nazi takeover.
• In 1933 the Nazis destroyed large parts of his work banned him from working and exhibiting.
• From 1951 to 1983 Bruno Voigt was the director of the State Museum in Gotha.

EXHIBITION: Bruno Voigt. 126th sales exhibition at Galerie am Sachsenplatz (State GDR art trader), Leipzig August 31 - September 28, 1986, cat. no. 113 wwith color illu.
Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. A City of Decadence, Revolt, and Chaos: The Watercolors and Drawings of Bruno Voigt. Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin June 11 - August 2, 1987 (with a label on the reverse of the mount)
German an Austrian Art of the 1920s and 1930s: The Marvin an Janet Fishman Collection, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wisconsin April 11 - June 16, 2002 (with a label on the reverse of the mount).

"The influence of George Grosz, Rudolf Schlichter and Karl Arnold was decisive for most of my drawings and etchings – I don't think that's plagiarism, but a question of the generation I belong to“.
(Galerie am Sachsenplatz/Staatlicher Kunsthandel der DDR, Leipzig 1986, p. 5.)

In good condition.