Michel Fingesten

Ex Libris "E.T."

Ex Libris J. De Belder is an Artwork realized in 1977, by the Czech author Josef Liesler (1912-2005). Color Lithograph print on paper. Hand Signed and...

Ex-Libris - Hansamann is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. Etching on paper. Good conditions. The artwork represents a minimalistic, clean design, through preciseness .

Ex Libris is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. Woodcut print on paper. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Total dimensions: 21 x 15 cm. Good conditions. The artist want...

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...

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...

Signed artist proof of an ex libris print featuring Flemish Renaissance composer Orlando Di Lasso, with violins, cello and lute. Oldrich Kulhanek is ...

One of 25 copies. Michał Cygan (born in 1989 in Wadowice) He is a graduate of School of Art in Bielsko Biała. Studies graphic arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice. He practic...

Medium: original woodcut. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1919 for Das Kestnerbuch, an important collection of original prints published during the height of the German ...