Around 1920/30. Granite, painted white/black. 19 x 14 cm. On the reverse monogr.: RH, old adhesive label, inscribed in typewriting: Richard Haizmann. Mask in archaic formal language, the flat front side provided by the artist with eyes, brows, nose and mouth in a few brushstrokes. - German painter, graphic artist, sculptor a. ceramicist, after serving in World War I he made a commercial 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. Mus.: Hamburg (MK&G), Bielefeld, Niebüll (R.H.-Mus.). Lit.: Vollmer, Der Neue Rump.