Michel Fingesten

Ex Libris - Jean Searight - Etching by Michel Fingesten - 1930s

1930s

Ex Libris Heeren Herta is an etching realized by Michel Fingesten, in 1936. No 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...

Ex Libris Gigi Raimondo is an Etching by Michel Fingesten, in 1937. Hand signed with pencil, 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...

Ex Libris - Violette Talbot is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter ...

Ex Libris - G.M. Van Wees, Venezia is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered on the left corner ex. 95/150 Good conditions except ...

Ex Libris - M.G. Van Wees is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten in 1940. Hand signed on the lower margin. Numbered on the left corner, ex. 149/150 Good conditions. Mich...

Ex Libris - Gaston Roux is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter and ...

Nele Zirnite (1959) 2003 Associate Professor, Art Department, the Latvian Christian Academy 2000 M.F.A., the Latvian Art Academy 1995 – 2003 Lecturer, Graphic Arts Department, the Latvian Art Academy 1988 – present Member, the Latvian Artists' Union 1984 B.F.A., the Latvian Art Academy 1959 Born in Lithuania Selected Awards 2005 – Grand Prix Biennial of small graphics, GRAFIX, Breclav, Czech Republic 2003 – Award and Prize - Professional performing in 6.th exhibition of Small forms of Art, Gallery Riga, Latvia 1998 – Prize, Riga in Contemporary Art, Bastejs Gallery, Riga, Latvia 1998 – Grand prix award, Miniature Art, R. Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers, Gloucester, MA, USA 1992 – Prize and Diploma, 9th Graphic Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia 1987 – Second Prize, Roads and People, Smiltene, Latvia 1987 – Diploma, 13th Graphic Art Exhibition, Riga, Latvia 1987 – Special Prize, Miniature Graphic Triennial, Riga, Latvia 1984 – Award, Best Drawing Artist of the Year, Vilnius Art Institute, Lithuania Selected Solo Exhibitions 2015 – Army of Beauty, Conversations in Culture, European House, USA 2015 – ORIGIN, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre, Latvia 2014 – Behind Rain, Gallery "Art Bank", Riga, Latvia 2014 – BALZEKAS Museum, Chicago, USA 2014 – Latvian House, Washington, USA 2014 – Lithuanian Consulate in USA, New York, USA 2013 – Transfusion, Oslo 12, Raum D, Basel, Switzerland 2010 – Rezerved, Gallery Antonija, Riga, Latvia 2009 – Reservoir of Time, Solo Exhibition, National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia 2008 – Nele Zirnite Solo Exhibition, Xativa, Spain 2008 – Meiles slenis, Galerija "Dalia", Vilnius, Lithuania 2007 – NEXUS, Riga’s Gallery, Riga, Latvia 2007 – Art Gallery of Mary Olla Miller, Panama City, FL, USA 2006 – NEXUS, Gallery ARTima, Vilnius, Lithuania 2005 – NEXUS, Ciurlionis Art Gallery, Chikago, ASV 2004 – Graphic, Gallery BAS, Naperville, ASV 2003 – Nele Zirnite: Gravure a l’eau forte, Paloma Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, USA 2003 – Etchings by Nele Zirnite, Monroe County Community College Library, Monroe, MI, USA 2001 – Traces of the Wings, Ivonna Veiherte Gallery, Riga, Latvia 2000 – Art Gallery of Mary Olla Miller, Panama City, FL, USA 1999 – Flowers, Bastejs Gallery, Riga, Latvia 1999 – Carriers, Rigas Gallery, Riga Latvia 1999 – Dragons Gallery...

A magnificent, rare original etching by Scottish artist William Russell Flint. This etching was just acquired from the estate of an important American artist where it has resided fo...

Brussels: J. Bouwens, 1867. Etching with aquatint and engraving on laid Japan paper, 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches (247 x 163 mm), full margins. Fifth state (of 5). Scattered moderate foxing....

James Ensor (1860-1949), Exterminating Angel (L'Ange Exterminateur), etching with drypoint, 1889, signed and dated in pencil lower right, also titled and countersigned verso. Referen...

William Strang (1859-1921), Mother Earth, 1897, etching, drypoint, aquatint ); signed in pencil lower right, and signed by the printer David Strang and...

"L'Etendard De La Vigilance" is an original etching and serigraph by Joel Cazaux. The artist signed the piece lower right, and wrote the edition number 38/100 in the lower left, and ...