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Ex Libris Vdovikki - Original Woodcut - Mid-20th Century

Mid-20th Century

Ex Libris Vlasaka is an original Artwork realized in the Second half of the 20th Century. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. The work is glued on cardboard. To...

Ex Libris Hlinovska is an original Contemporary Artwork realized in the mid-20th Century. Original B/W woodcut print on ivory-colored paper. Hand-signed in pencil on the lower righ...

Ex libris Olav Tähe Paper, woodcut, 11x7cm

Arthur Kolnik, Jewish painter and printmaker Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine) 1890 - Paris (France) 1972 Arthur Kolnik was born in Stanislavov, a small town in Galicia, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, who was originally from Lithuania, worked as an accountant and his mother, who was originally from Vienna, ran a shop. In 1905, he discovered Yiddish literature in Czernowitz, on the occasion of the first conference on Yiddish language, which was organized by several writers including I. L. Peretz, Cholem Aleichem, Shalom Asch, and Nomberg. In 1909, Kolnik joined the School of Fine Arts in Krakow and took classes taught by Jacek Malezcewski and Joseph Mehoffer, a portrait painter and an artist who produced stained-glass windows in Fribourg (Switzerland). He was mobilized in the Austrian army in 1914. He was wounded in 1916 and repatriated to Vienna, where he met the Judaic painter Isidor Kaufmann. In 1919, Kolnik settled in Czernowitz, which was then annexed by Romania. There, he met writer and poet Itzik Manger and storyteller Eliezer Steinberg for whom he produced several illustrations. In 1920, Kolnik left for the United States, bringing fifty paintings...