A very interesting German Expressionist or Neue Sachlichkeit etching and drypoint by German/Jewish artist Marcel Frischmann (1900-1952). It is hand signed in pencil and numbered by the artist and depicts a roustabouts and circus folk in the midst of tent setup in a city lot, probably Berlin. 

The plate measures 6 1/4 x 7 5/8 inches, sheet size is approx. 10 x 11 1/2 inches with a deckel edge on one side.  It is printed on fine wove paper, aside from even overall age toning and some marginal handling crimps, it is in excellent original condition. 
 
Marcel Frischmann (1900-1952) was a German printmaker, draughtsman and cartoonist He was born into a Jewish family in Łódź, Poland, then part of the Russian Empire  In 1904 he moved with his family to Berlin, Germany, where he attended the Königlich Technische Hochschule, graduating as an engineer. Shortly thereafter, he enrolled at the Berlin Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied alongside Czech-born etcher and lithographer Emil Orlik under Hans Meid.  In the early 1920s he contributed drawings to a number of German periodicals including Die Jugend, Berliner Tageblatt, Der Querschnitt and Uhu before moving to Munich in 1926 to join the staff of the political and satirical weekly Simplicissimus as their youngest cartoonist. When the magazine was taken over by the Nazis in 1933 and increasing anti-Semitic legislation followed, Frischmann and his wife fled from Germany. 

They arrived in Copenhagen, Denmark and soon settled in Brussels, Belgium for the next few years. In 1939, Frischmann and his wife emigrated to Australia. There, Frischmann was forced to undertake a variety of menial jobs such as a steel factory laborer before enlisting in the Australian Air Force in 1942. After the war he exhibited his work at the Velasquez Galleries in Melbourne in 1948. 

 In 1951, the Frischmanns returned to Europe, emigrating to England and settling in London at the Abbey Arts Centre, New Barnet. Established in 1946 by art dealer William Ohly, the Arts Centre served as a base for many Australian artists after the war. Despite deteriorating health, Frischmann continued to contribute to the Swiss satirical magazine Nebelfpalter, as well as engaging in photography, which had been his lifelong hobby. Marcel Frischmann died of a heart attack in London in 1952. In 1957 facsimile reproductions of his drawings from 1950–52, including illustrations of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky and views of London Docklands, accompanied by texts by John Berger and George Besson were published by Bruno Cassirer (Oxford, England).