Bidspirit auction | Alfred Beier-Red (1902–2001), a collection

Alfred Beier-Red (1902–2001), a collection - Alfred Beier-Red (1902–2001), a collection of 13 prints by the prominent German caricaturist. He worked primarily for the communist press, such as *Die Rote Post* and *Die Rote Fahne*, etc.; to protect himself from reprisals, he usually signed his work with the pseudonym “Red.” He was a co-founder of the “Association of Revolutionary Visual Artists,” and from 1946 onward, he worked primarily for *Neue Deutschland*. His original drawings and prints are held, among other places, by the German Historical Museum, but are rarely found on the market. Among them is a cover illustration for *Roter Pfeffer* from 1922, etchings, silkscreen prints, and lithographs with socially critical motifs, 7 hand-signed, some duplicates, signs of age and storage, sheet sizes up to 65 x 45 cm