Emil Pottner - Rooster and Eagle - The New Champion. Original lithograph 1915

Emil Pottner: Rooster and Eagle ("The New Champion"). Original lithograph, 1915. Image size: 26.3 x 22.3 cm, sheet size: 40.5 x 32 cm, from the portfolio "Original Stone Drawings of the Berlin Secession," Julius Bard, Berlin, 1915. Signed in the stone at the lower margin with the Berlin Secession signature and typographically inscribed "Emil Pottner: The New Champion."
Reference: Söhn HdO (Manual of the Original Graphics) No. 43212-3 (with illustration).

Emil Pottner, the child of a Jewish acting family, was born in 1872. He joined the Berlin Secession in 1904 and was elected to its board in 1913. He was banned from practicing his profession in 1933 and held his last exhibition at the Jewish Museum on Oranienburger Straße in Berlin-Mitte in 1935. He lived in Petzow an der Havel. As a result of the Nazi regime's work ban on Jews, Pottner was forced to abandon his ceramics workshop in Charlottenburg at the end of 1933. In 1938, he was forced to sell his property in Petzow, where he had created his garden paintings and woodcuts. On July 24, 1942, he was deported to Theresienstadt, from there to Treblinka on September 26, and then to the Maly Trostinets extermination camp. His last sign of life dates from September 28, 1942.