Otto Staiger – Lake Lugano

Otto Staiger (Basel 1894 – 1967 Basel)

Lake Lugano
Woodcut 1929
Signed and dated lower right: O. Staiger 29
Inscribed lower left: Handdruck für Rot-Blau Nr. 12 (hand print for red-blue no.12)
45 x 55 on 53.5 x 62 cm

Hand-signed prints by Otte Staiger are very rare!
Beautiful, detailed hand print on thin Japanese paper, laid on cardboard.

Literature: L’espresionismo del Mendrisiotto ROT-BLAU, 1996, page 324 (with picture).

Otto Staiger joined the Red-Blue group in 1925, to which Hermann Scherer, Albert Müller, Paul Camenisch and Werner Neuhaus belonged.

Available from Zurich.