Gerard Schelpe

Ex Libris - Bibliotheek Unicum - Woodcut by Gerard Schelpe - 1945

1945

Ex Libris - W.F. Van Der Burgh is a Modern Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century . Ex Libris. B./W. woodcut on ivory paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 2...

Ex Libris - Hans Laut is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. Woodcut. Good conditions. The artist wants to define a well-balanced composition, through preciseness.

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 - Reinier is an Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. Woodcut print on paper. The work is glued on ivory cardboard. Total dimensions: 20 x 14 cm. Excellent conditions. ...

Karl Michel, 'Ex Libris Verein' (New Year's Ex Libris Club Announcement), etching, 1924. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 167' in pencil. Signed and dated in...

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...

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

Medium: original etching. This impression on Canson et Montgolfier wove paper was printed in 1937 in an edition of 500 for the "Paris 1937" portfolio. Printed at the atelier of Jean-...