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Franz Theodor Schutt (German, 1908-1990)Five unframed ink drawings on paper relating to the artist's time in Guernsey during 1942-1944 as part of the German occupying forces, Young woman lookig out to sea, signed, dated and inscribed lower right "Fr Th Schutt '44 Saint Peter", 25 x 33cm., Boat drawn up on the shore, signed, dated and inscribed lower left "Fr Th Schutt '44 Saint P", 20 x 15cm., St Sampson, signed, dated and inscribed lower right "Sampson 1944 Schutt, 34 x 21cm., Yachts and figures on shore, dated and inscribed lower left "Saint Peter '44", 25 x 21cm., Thee sailing boats on shore, signed, dated and inscribed lower right "Saint Peter Schutt '44", 25 x 21cm.*Franz Theodor Schutt studied painting, sculpture, ceramics and later interior design in Stettin and Munich and working as a freelance artist exhibited his work alongside Max Pechstein and others in Koslin, Pomerania, in 1934. The exhibition was closed for political reasons and further dificulties led Schutt to leave Stettin for Danzig in 1937. He planned to escape Germany in 1940 but was thwarted at the last minute and instead was drafted into the military being stationed in Guernsey between 1942 - 1944. The bombing of Stettin in 1943 destroyed his entire body of work, nearly 1000 pictures and sculptures. (5)
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