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Horst Antes - Horst Antes 1936 Heppenheim - ”Baden-Baden Poster” (1967) Color offset lithograph/paper. 120.5 x 85 cm (sheet size). With personal dedication and signed below: For Dr. Werner Schmalenbach with the assurance to answer the letter, very sincerely Yours Antes. The sheet is loose. Rolled. Slight creases. - Lit.: Lutze 551. Antes studied with HAP Grieshaber in Karlsruhe and has been a professor at the local art academy since 1967. The main theme of his work is the ”head-footer” human, a dwarf-like creature with its giant head shown in profile. In the early 1960s, he turned to a new figurative painting with this.