Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Drawing of Cobbler, Berlin, WWII Era folk art collection including simplicity

including simplicity

I find the relationship between the form of the turned handle and the tapered bristles at the other end of this brush super satisfying

or was particularly attached to owls

Quite a remarkable document of the time

Arthur Tilo Alt Childhood Drawing of Cobbler, Berlin, WWII Era folk art collection including simplicityThis is among a several drawings I purchased together by Dr. Arthur Tilo Alt (1931 2019) a scholar and professor of German in Yiddish language and literature in the Judaic studies program at Duke University which came from his estate in Younsgsville, NC. Born in Java, Indonesia, Alt's family returned to their native Germany in 1933, where Tilo grew up in West Berlin, ultimately moving to the U. S. in 1956 to study at the University of Texas. While I