Albert Schweitzer Signed Lithograph.

SCHWEITZER, Albert; Artist William Sharp.

$3,800.00

Item Number: 41060

Signed by the artist William Sharp in pencil. Inscribed by Nobel Peace Prize winner Albert Schweitzer, “A Mr John Zuber avec mes bonnes pensees Albert Schweitzer. Lambarene 13. Juin 1960.” The translation reads, “To Mr John Zuber with my good wishes Albert Schweitzer Lambarene 13th June 1960.” Schweitzer received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of “Reverence for Life”, expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa. The lithograph measures 14.5 inches by 11.5 inches. Double matted and framed. The entire piece measures 19 inches by 22.5 inches. A unique piece, rare and desirable.

Artist William Sharp was born in Lemberg, Austria, where he attended college and the Academy for Arts and Industry.  He later studied in Kraków, Poland, and in Berlin and Munich, Germany. He began his career as a designer of stained-glass windows and as a painter of murals.  He served in the German army during World War I.  After the war he became a newspaper artist in Berlin and a well-known etcher. He later worked as an artist at Esquire, where he continued to produce political cartoons, Sharp also illustrated stories by Ernest Hemingway and Thomas Mann. He was also a longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine and also worked for Life, Colliers, Coronet, and The New York Post.  Sharp also did book illustrations for several leading publishers, with Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop for Heritage Press being his first assignment.  He illustrated several books for limited editions, including The Diary of Samuel Pepys in 10 volumes.  His work is represented in many museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Library of Congress, the Carnegie Institute, and the New York Public Library.