Guntar Grass

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A magnificent portrait of a great writer.

Excellent portrait of an interesting writer. The Tin Drum is superb and disturbing and very clever.

Just to add a note of praise to Painters-Online/TAPC here - this painting is so much easier to see than it would have been on the old site: that gives us a challenge, but of course Pratim meets it with his customary skill: you can really see every brush-stroke.

Thanks for the kind of appreciation Robert Jones Sir.... And yes thanks to website also...<br />Thanks Gudrun St&amp;amp ...

AUTHORS OF THE WORLD ... GUNTER GRASS ....WATERCOLOUR... 7INCH*5INCH ... 2015 ... G&#252;nter Wilhelm Grass (German: ['g?nt? 'g?as]; 16 October 1927 – 13 April 2015) was a German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic artist, sculptor, and recipient of the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. Grass, who identified as Kashubian, was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland). As a teenager, he served as a drafted soldier since late 1944 in the Waffen SS, and was taken prisoner of war by U.S. forces at the end of the war in May 1945. He was released in April 1946. Trained as a stonemason and sculptor, Grass began writing in the 1950s. In his fiction, he frequently returned to the Danzig of his childhood. Grass is best known for his first novel, The Tin Drum (1959), a key text in European magic realism. It was the first book of his Danzig Trilogy, the other two being Cat and Mouse and Dog Years. His works are frequently considered to have a left-wing political dimension, an