Andreas Paul Weber

Encouraged by his mother and grandfather, he briefly attended the Kunstgewerbeschule Erfurt[2] (School for decorative and applied arts) before joining the Jungwandervogel, a movement of Germans who wanted to start a new lifestyle closer to nature, in 1908.

He began to come into his own when it came to art and lithography, as he had his work published in such journals as the Magazine for National Revolutionary Politics.

He and his son Christian started a design press in 1925, where they produced logos, bookplates and advertising graphics.

Other series of images are The Chess Players, portrait caricatures, satirical / allegorical representations of animals and drawings for the magazine Resistance published by Ernst Niekisch.

Due to his work with a National Bolshevik resistance movement, headed by Ernst Niekisch, against the regime, he was sent to the Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel concentration camp on 2 July 1937.

In 1971 he received an honorary professorship from the state of Schleswig-Holstein "in appreciation of his complete work as a graphic artist.