Panel (Dress or Furnishing Fabric)

Lisker was an accomplished painter and designer whose two textile panels shown here couldn't be more unlike, thus suggesting his range as an artist. This one is reminiscent of a nonrepresentational African textile pattern favored in the Kuba culture of the Congo, while the other is a naive winter hunt scene drawn in reserve on a dark blue ground. In 1924 Lisker became professor (later director) at the City Art School in Frankfurt, so his submission of textile patterns to DEWETEX, founded just the year before, was likely done on a freelance basis.