Hermann Paul (1864-1940).

Old wood and stucco frame, asymmetrical, red and silver. Frame dimensions 27 x 19 cm.
Dimensions of the drawing 18 x 13 cm. HP monogrammed.
René Georges Hermann Paul, dit Hermann-Paul, born in Paris on December 27, 1864, and died in Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer on June 23, 1940, is a French painter and illustrator.
He apprenticed at the School of Decorative Arts in Paris and at the Académie Julian.
His teachers are Henry Lerolle and Gustave Colin.
His engraved work is considerable.
He sympathizes with revolutionary and anarchist theses and offers illustrations to the Album du Père Peinard by Émile Pouget for 1898 and to the libertarian periodicals, La feuille de Zo d'Axa (1898), Les Temps nouvelles (1904-1914), the Almanac of the Social Question (1902), The Social War (from 1906). He campaigned against anti-Semites during the Dreyfus affair, in particular by providing drawings to the Whistle. He is one of the twelve illustrators of the Hommage des artistes à Picquart (1899). He was an assiduous contributor to Le Sourire (1899-1914), L'Assiette au beurre (1901-1912) and the Courrier français Illustrée.