1932. Copper sheet, punched. Mask with straight, bulging nose, eyes and mouth slit. Inside old adhesive label inscribed 'Richard Haizmann 1932'. 27 x 18 cm. - German painter, graphic artist, sculptor a. ceramicist, after serving in World War I he made amercial education, by founding an art shop he Hamburg he came in contact with E. Nolde, E.-L. Kircher, K. Schmidt-Rottluff u. E. Heckel a. started to create art himself, defamed as 'degenerate' by the Nazis he retired to Niebüll. M.: Hamburg (MK&G), Bielefeld, Niebüll (R.H.-M.). Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump.