Rolf Nesch was more than an innovative fine art printmaker, he was a man who committed himself to his art, even to the point of inflicting himself a serious injury on his left harm just so that he would not be enlisted in the German army during WWII. In spite of some limitations with his arm as consequence, Nesch continued to immerge himself in very serious experimentation with the printing press that ultimately led him to discover some innovative techniques with metal printing. For Rolf Nesch, his obsession with printing began in 1919 when he started to work on his first lithographs, and ended abruptly due to a serious brain stroke in 1972 with his last metal prints. Nesch died in Oslo, Norway, in the fall of 1975. Nesch was born in Württenberg, Germany, 82 years earlier in 1893. By 1912 he entered the art academy but was forced to suspend his studies in order to be enlisted in the army and fight in WWI. In 1920 He resumed his artistic education, which he completed three years later in Dresden. Nesch was also a serious painter and even experimented with sculpture all throughout the 1920s, however, by the end of that decade, political issues of the time made Rolf Nesch move to Norway, and from that point forward, he concentrated more on printing. A couple of years after his self inflicting injury, Nesch met his wife, an actress by the name of Ragnhild Hald, in 1945 Nesch was granted Norwegian citizenship, and by 1951 he had settled his family at a country farm in Hallingdal where he established his print studio and produced an incredible collection or vivid graphic work that has always been well praised by art lovers all throughout the world.