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Portrait - Woodcut - Early 20th Century

Early 20th Century

Portrait is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.

Portrait is a woodcut print realized by an unknown artist in the early 20th Century. Very Good conditions. the artwork is depicted through confident strokes.

Portrait of the German poet, Johann Gottwerth Muller (1743-1828). Pencil signed, titled and dated to the lower margin. On Japanese paper.

A 1928 woodcut on paper of a self-portrait of Notable Chicago Modernist artist Emil Armin. artowrk size: 10 1/2" x 8". Archivally matted to: 12 1/2" x 14 1/2. Edition 7/30. Emil Armin was born in Radautz, Austria in 1883. By the age of 10, Armin was orphaned and was raised by his older siblings. He supported himself by working in restaurants and drew in his spare time. In 1905, at the age of 21, Armin immigrated to Chicago. He began studying at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1907, but financial difficulties forced him to start and stop a number of times, finally graduating in 1920. He studied with George Bellows and Randall Davey. Armin was an integral part of Chicago’s 57th Street Art Colony and exhibited in both the more avant-garde Chicago No-Jury Society Shows, as well as the more formal and conventional Chicago Society of Artists Exhibitions, the Chicago Renaissance Society and Art Institute of Chicago (1922-1949) exhibitions. He taught at Hull House...