Michel Fingesten

Ex Libris PF - Woodcut by Michel Fingesten - 1936

1936

Ex Libris G.B. is a woodcut print by Michel Fingesten, in 1937. Hand signed , included a white cardboard passpartout (30x24 cm). In excellent conditions: As good as new. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter and engraver of Jewish origin. He is considered one of the greatest Ex Libris artists in history. From an Austrian weaver father and a Jewish mother from Trieste. At 16 he studied at the Vienna Academy, together with Oskar Kokoschka. From 1902 to 1906 he wandered around America, and then Australia, before arriving in Palermo in 1907. He went up the peninsula via Trieste and returning to Germany, first settling in Munich in Franz von Stuck's studio, practicing caricature and small format graphics and then in Berlin. In 1913 he began to record. He returned to Italy in 1935 to visit his maternal relatives from Trieste and remained there because of the racial persecutions to which the Jews in Silesia were subject, settling in Milan. In this period he recorded about 500 exlibris. On 9 October 1940 he was arrested and interned as a foreigner in the camp of Civitella del Tronto and then of Ferramonti, (Cosenza) from November 1941 and will be accused by the Nazis of having painted degenerate art ("Entartete Kunst...

Ex Libris is a woodcut print by Michel Fingesten, realized in 1936. Hand signed, included a white cardboard passpartout (24x30 cm). In excellent conditions: As good as new. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter and engraver of Jewish origin. He is considered one of the greatest Ex Libris artists in history. From an Austrian weaver father and a Jewish mother...

Image dimensions: 8.8 x 5.5 cm. Ex Libris - PF is an original xilograph artwork realized by Michel Fingesten in the 1930s Hand-signed on the lower center and hand written notes. ...

Ex Libris - PF is an original xilograph artwork realized by Michel Fingesten in the 1930s Hand-signed on the lower center and hand written notes. Mint conditions except for some foxings. Includes passepartout : 49 x 34 cm Ex Libris is a Latin phrase meaning a bookplate that identifies the owner of the book into which it is pasted. Michel Fingesten (Butzkowitz, 1884 - Cerisano, 1943) was a Czech painter...

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