Artist WALDEMAR GERWIN-CRANZ - Postcards / Autographs

• Artist WALDEMAR GERWIN-CRANZ - Postcards / Autographs

The handwritten postcards date from 1946-1948.

Waldemar Gerwin-Cranz was born near Königsberg in 1901 and studied there with Stanislaus Cauer. He worked as a sculptor, but was best known as a nature and landscape painter.

In 1946 he became a taxidermist at the Zoological Institute and Museum in Kiel, where he invented dermoplastic, filling the prepared body with plaster.

Waldemar Gerwin-Cranz lived in Mönkeberg and died in 1976.