Black and white lithograph Title: Untitled Year: 1974 Format: 500 x 390 mm. Technique: Lithography on paper Inscribed: Signed, dated and numbered Edition size: 40 copies Condition: Fine Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland. One can say about the artist and his works: Hans Aeschbacher grew up from an industrial district in Zurich and learned the craft of printing. Without completing an apprenticeship, he then earned enough money as a runner to be able to travel to Italy in 1926. In Rome, the 18-year-old drew monuments and female nudes. Back in Zurich he became a master plasterer. After work he drew and painted in his own studio. With works made of plaster and stone he received the Federal Art Grant in 1939, 1940 and 1941. In 1944 he took part in an exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zurich for the first time. In 1947 Aeschbacher received the Conrad Ferdinand Meyer Prize. Aeschbacher lived in southern France until 1964, where he created his best sculptures from lava and Provençal marble. In the winter he worked in Zurich and in 1965 moved into his own house in Russikon in the Zurich Oberland. In 1959 the first monograph about Hans Aeschbacher was published with texts by Hans Fischli and Michel Seuphor. In 1956 and 1964 he took part in the Venice Biennale, where he showed his first Op Art graphics. 1959 Documenta 2 and 1964 Documenta 3 in Kassel. Harald Szeemann organized the first important solo exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bern in 1961. In 1966 Aeschbacher was awarded the Prix Jean Arp. In 1973 Aeschbacher received the canton's honorary gift and in 1977 the art prize of the city of Zurich. On his 70th birthday, Hans Heinz Holz's comprehensive monograph was published by ABC Verlag in 1976. Hans Aeschbacher died on January 27, 1980 and in 1985 the Kunsthaus Zurich organized a large retrospective, which continued on a smaller scale in Mendrisio in 1986. To this day, parts of his collections are shown all over Europe.