Michel Fingesten

Ex Libris - Woodcut by Michel Fingesten - 1920s

1920s

Original Ex Libris, includes passpartout. Woodcut print on paper. Hand signed. 

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...

Original Ex Libris, includes passepartout. Woodcut print on paper. Hand signed. 

Image dimensions: 11.5 x 9 cm. Ex Libris is an original woodcut print realized by Michel Fingesten. Hand-signed on the lower center and hand written notes. Mint conditions. Sheet Dimension: 15 x 20 Ex Libris is a Latin phrase meaning a bookplate that identifies the owner of the book into which it is pasted. In this artwork there is an entrance to a church, with a crucifix and two initials at the bottom "G" and "B". Behind the door of the church a large human face is the background. Michel Fingesten (Butzkowitz, 1884 - Cerisano, 1943) was a Czech painter...

Ex libris Olav Tähe Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm

ONE WEEK ONLY SALE This woodcut print is an expressionist print on one of the poems from Max Weber's poetry collection "Primitives: Poems and Woodcuts". This work is signed in penci...

Ex Libris A. Zuyeva Paper, etching, 11x7 cm

Karl Michel, 'Ex Libris Dr. Witropp - Homunculus und Galatee', etching, 1923, edition not stated. Signed, dated, and numbered 'Op. 140' (the artist's inventory number) in pencil. Si...