Hugo "Puck" Dachinger (1908-1995).

Title: 2 Nudes

Pastel & Pen on paper

Signed and dated 1959. 

Size: Approx 38cm x 50cm

Excellent condition and Framed

Pictured aquired from artists son.

Hugo "Puck" Dachinger

Painter, draughtsman and designer; born Gmunden, Austria between Salzburg and Linz, son of a draper; studied fine art in Leipzig 1929-32; moved to Vienna in 1932 where he worked as a window-dresser for the English firm Saville and Co amongst others; invented and patented a system of movable type in 1933; as an Austrian Jewish refugee emigrated to England in 1938 sponsored by Saville and Co and was shortly joined by his father and step-mother; in June 1940 he was interned as an 'enemy alien' at Huyton near Liverpool (June-early October 1940) and then at the Mooragh Camp at Ramsey on the Isle of Man (after 10 Oct 1940-January 1941); in November 1940 he held an exhibition of his internment drawings 'Art Behind Barbed Wire' in the camp; after his release in January 1941, he moved to London where he held a second exhibition of his internment drawings entitled 'Art Behind Wire' at the Redfern Gallery, London in April 1941 which received critical attention; died 2 December 1995.