Walther Gasch (1886-1962), German painter, graphic artist and Nazi Party member from Leipzig, studied at the Dresden Academy under Hegenbarth and Richard Müller, whose master student he was. From 1934 deputy director of the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig. Portrait of grandmother Eleonora Fischer, charcoal and white chalk on light brown paper, o. r. monogr. a. dated 1913, bottom right again signed a. titled in runic letters, 40 x 35 cm, framed behind glass 44 x 39 cm