The Wool Market in Braunschweig.

LILIEN, EPHRAIM MOSES.

1923

Etching. Signed by artist in pencil lower right. Unexamined out of frame.

Scene from the Germany city of Braunschweig’s wool market commonly known as the Alte Waage or ‘Old Scales’ Building (built in 1534), with the stately Gothic south tower of St. Andrew’s Church in the background. Following a 1944 firestorm attack on the city, the timber-framed structures of the Alte Waage and other surrounding buildings were destroyed and much of St. Andrew’s was severely damaged.