Thein, Heinrich - figure - signed on the reverse... Lot 1825

Thein, Heinrich - figure - signed on the reverse at the bottom, ceramic, red body, fully sculpted figure of a planter, in a strongly stooped posture, rough, cracked, unsmoothed surface, traces of age, h approx. 28 cm Artist information: Thein, Heinrich, 1888 Nuremberg - 1969 Haßfurt am Main, expressive small sculptor, after a pottery apprenticeship in Lauf he worked from 1925 as artistic director of the Sächsische Ofen- und Wandplatten-Werke in Meissen, between 1945 and 1947 he was head of the design department at the Staatliche Porzellanmanufaktur Meissen, later he also worked as a freelance artist