H.N. Werkman (1882-1945) - Vaders en zonen

This print or lithograph is a limited edition from the Groninger Museum from 1985, and the large unframed one measures 50x32 cm.
It is in very good condition and the photographs are an integral part of the description.
H.N. Werkman (1882-1945) - Chassidic Legends (illustration), Fathers and Sons
The Chassidic Legends. Fathers and Sons. This is a print from the well-known Litho series.
Early 1941, H.N. Werkman read Die Legende des Baalschem by Martin Buber, a collection of stories about the eighteenth-century Polish Jewish teacher Yisroel ben Eliezer, nicknamed the Baal Shem Tov. Werkman was deeply impressed. In a short time he, using stencils, printing ink and other material from his print shop, created twenty compositions inspired by these wonderful stories. In this way he overcame the artistic block he had felt since the beginning of the German occupation.
In 1942 and 1943 Werkman printed editions of these prints, divided into two series of ten, which he called Suites.
They appeared with the clandestine publisher De Blauwe Schuit, for which Werkman produced a total of forty editions between 1941 and 1944. The texts in this series of forty editions, of which the Chassidic Legends were part, usually did not directly relate to the war situation, but they did refer to it.
With Geuzen songs and psalms, but also modern stories and poetry, the publishers aimed to give their audience a morale boost. That succeeded, partly thanks to Werkman’s colorful illustrations.
Werkman was arrested in the spring of 1945 by the Sicherheitsdienst. The liberation of Groningen on 15 April came too late for him. On 10 April 1945 he was executed at Bakkeveen together with nine others.