Symbolist Art

Ex Libris - Mantero is a Woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Very Good condition. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter...

Portrait is a prototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923. Title...

Die neue stadt is an book written by J. Luitpold and illustrated by Otto Rudolph Schatz (Wien, 1900 - Wien, 1961) in 1926. Original First Edition. Published by Buchergilde Gutenberg, Berlin. Format: In Folio. The dimensions of the book are indicative. The book includes 38 pages with 12 Woodcuts. Good conditions. This Book has been illustrated by Otto Rudolf Schatz...

Ex Libris - H. Malz Wünscht is a Woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten in 1936. Hand signed on the lower margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech pa...

Ex Libris - Nina Tosi is a woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painter a...

2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extol...

Femme espèrent is a wonderful original photolithograph applied on paper, realized after the French artist, Guys Constantin (1802 -1892). In very good condition, including a petrol-g...

Ex Libris - Mary Talbot is an Etching print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech painte...

Ex Libris - Salve Pax is a woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten in 1937. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Good conditions. Michel Fingesten (1884 - 1943) was a Czech...

Ex Libris - Ruter is a Woodcut print created by Michel Fingesten. Hand Signed on the lower right margin. Numbered on the left corner, ex. n. 6/30 Very good condition. Michel Fing...

"Mules" Figurative Painting (FRAMED) 39" x 59" inch by Ahmed Saber Medium: watercolor on paper AHMED SABER - BIO Ahmed Saber is an Egyptian artist based in Luxor in Upper Egypt, wh...

2018 marks the centenary anniversary of Ferdinand Hodler’s death. In that 100 years time, the art world’s esteem of this important artist has proved fickle. It has shifted from extolling his artistic merits during his lifetime to showing something of a feigned disdain- more reflective of the world political order than a true change of heart for Hodler’s work. After years of Hodler being all but a footnote in the annals of art history and generally ignored, finally, the pendulum has righted itself once again. Recent retrospective exhibitions in Europe and the United States have indicated not only a joyful rediscovery of Hodler’s art but a firm conviction that his work and world view hold particular relevance today. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is not only a collection of printed work reflecting the best of all of his painted work created up to 1914 just before the outbreak of World War I, the portfolio itself is an encapsulation of Hodler’s ethos, Parallelisme. Hodler developed his philosophy of Parallelisme as a unifying approach to art which strips away detail in search of harmony. By means of abstraction, symmetry and repetition, Hodler sought ways to depict Nature’s essence and her fundamental, universal order. He believed these universal laws governing the natural, observable world extend to the spiritual realm. Symbolist in nature with Romantic undertones, his works are equally portraits of these universal concepts and feelings governing all life as they are a visual portrait in the formal sense. Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a belief, Hodler unveils this guiding principle of Parallelisme. Several aspects of Hodler’s portfolio reinforce his tenets of Parallelisme. The Table of Contents clearly preferences a harmonious design over detail. The two columns, consisting of twenty lines each, list the images by order of appearance using their German titles. The abbreviated titles are somewhat cryptic in that they obscure the identities of the sitters. Like the image Hodler presents, they are distillations of the sitter without any extraneous details. This shortening was also done in an effort to maintain a harmonious symmetry of the Table of Contents, themselves, and keep titles to a one-line limit. The twenty-fourth title: “Bildnis des Schweizerischen Gesandten C.” was so long, even with abbreviation, that it required two lines; so, for the sake of maintaining symmetry, the fortieth title: “Bauernmadchen” was omitted from the list. This explains why the images are not numbered. Hodler’s reasoning is not purely esoteric. Symmetry and pattern reach beyond mere formal design principles. Finding sameness and imposing it over disorder goes to the root of Hodler’s identity and his art. A Swiss native, Hodler was bi-lingual and spoke German and French. Each printed image, even number forty, have titles in both of Hodler’s languages. Certainly, there was a market for Hodler’s work among francophones and this inclusion may have been a polite gesture to that end; however, this is the only place in the portfolio which includes French. With German titles at the lower left of each image, Hodler’s name at bottom center and corresponding French titles at the lower right of each image, there is a harmony and symmetry woven into all aspects of the portfolio. This holds true for the page design, as it applies to each printed image and as it describes the Swiss artist himself. Seen in this light, Hodler’s portfolio of printed work is the epitome of Hodler’s Parallelisme. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS is also one of the most significant documents to best tell the story of how Hodler, from Switzerland, became caught between political cross-hairs and how the changing tides of nations directly impacted the artist during his lifetime as well as the accessibility of his art for generations to come. The Munich-based publisher of the portfolio, R. Piper & Co., Verlag, plays a crucial role in this story. Publishing on a wide range of subjects from philosophy and world religion to music, literature and the visual arts; the publisher’s breadth of inquiry within any one genre was equal in scope. Their marketing strategy to publish multiple works on Hodler offers great insight as to what a hot commodity Hodler was at that time. R.Piper & Co.’s Almanach, which they published in 1914 in commemoration of their first ten years in business, clearly illustrates the rapid succession- strategically calculated for achieving the deepest and broadest impact - in which they released three works on Hodler to hit the market by the close of 1914. DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS was their premier publication. It preceded C.A. Loosli’s Die Zeichnungen Ferdinand Hodlers, a print portfolio after 50 drawings by Hodler which was released in Autumn of 1914 at the mid-level price-point of 75-150 Marks; and a third less expensive collection of prints after original works by Hodler, which had not been included in either of the first two portfolios, was released at the end of that year entitled Ferdinand Hodler by Dr. Ewald Bender. The title and timing of DAS WERK FERDINAND HODLERS' debut leaves little doubt as to the connection it has with another avant-garde portfolio of art...

Ex Libris - Maria Pascual is a Modern Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century. B/W woodcut on paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimension...

Sire Halewyn is an original drypoint and color pencil on Japanese paper, realized by Fernand Khnopff in 1893, hand-signed and titled. In very good conditions. Fernand Khnopff's ...

Ex Libris - Por minha terra. Luiz Ferreira Matias is a Modern Artwork realized in Mid 20th Century Ex Libris. Colored woodcut on ivory paper. The work ...

Ex Libris - Marcel Jonckheere is a Modern Artwork realized by Gerard Schelpe (1906-1973) in 1959.. Ex Libris. B/W woodcut on paper. Monogrammed on plate and dated on the back...

Ex Libris is a Modern Artwork realized in mid 20th Century. B/W woodcut on paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 20 x 14.5 cm. Mint conditions. The art...

Ex Libris Luiz Da Cunha is an Artwork, woodcut print on paper. The work is glued on cardboard. Total dimensions: 21 x 14.7 cm. The artwork ripresents a minimalistic, clean design, ...

"Portrait of Stefan George" is an original woodcut on brown-colored paper, realized by Reinhold Lepsius (1857-1922). The state of preservation of the ar...

Le Liseur is a prototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923. Titl...

Ange Déchu is a prototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felury in 1923. Tit...

Illustration from the series "Les Fleurs du Mal" is an etching print realized after Odilon Redon and published by Henri Felury in 1923. Monogrammed on the plate. Good conditions. ...

Illustration from the series "Les Fleurs du Mal" is an etching print realized after Odilon Redon and published by Henri Felury in 1923. Monogrammed on the plate. Good conditions. ...

Illustration from the series "Les Fleurs du Mal" is an etching print realized after Odilon Redon and published by Henri Felury in 1923. Monogrammed on the plate. Good conditions wi...

Le Masque de la Mort Rouge is a phototype reproduction realized after Odilon Redon. They belong to the suite "Odilon Redon Peintre, Dessinateur et Graveur", published by Henri Felu...

Ballerinas is a photolithograph print on ivory-colored paper, glued on a greenish Passepartout realized in the early 20 century After Constantin Guys Good conditions. The critical ...

Chimera with Green Eyes is an original lithograph on Chine collé, realized by Odilon Redon in 1888, plate 7 from “Les tentations de St.Antoine” (1ère série), unique state, first e...

The European Macabre Dance N.7 is a hand-colored lithograph, from the Series "La Danza Macabra Europea" illustrated by Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 – Milan, 1954) in 1915. Signed on the plate, Original Edition. Published by Domenico Longo, Treviso. Handcolored lithographic postcards. Very good conditions. Alberto Martini (Oderzo, 1876 - Milan, 1954); was an Italian draftsman, painter, engraver and illustrator, forerunner of the surrealist movement...

D-156-144, monotype, cardboard/canvas/author's technique, 64x50 cm

Junge Frau mit Blumenvase (Young Woman with a flower vase) is a wonderful black and white etching with aquatint and drypoint interventions on cream-colored paper, realized in 1910 b...

"The Flower Enchantress", is an original oil painting on linen canvas by Andrée Bars. In this mysterious and elegant painting, artist Andrée Bars pays a sensitive and personal tribu...

Kriegsnotspende für Leipzig is an amazing black and white etching on paper, realized in 1909 by the German painter, Bruno Héroux (Leipzig, 1868-1944). Sig...

"Karfreitagszauber" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924). F...

Confess, paper/etching, 9.8x7.5 cm

Jealousy paper/etching, 19.5x15 cm, 1986

"Divina Commedia" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (A...

Die Pest in Bergamo is an original modern rare book illustrated by Alois Kolb (Wien, 1875 - Leipzig, 1942) and written by Jens Peter Jacobsen (Thisted, 1847...

Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...

'The Queen of the Night' Ott’s beautiful and striking Queen of the Night, the lead villain in Mozart’s ‘The Magic Flute’ can be identified by her striking pose and exotic head dress...

Candid oder der optimismus is an original modern rare book written by Voltaire and illustrated by Max Unold (Memmingen, 1885 - Munich, 1964) in 1913. Original Edition. 800 Numbere...

Abel Pann (1883–1963) was a European Jewish painter who settled in the Talpiot neighborhood of Jerusalem in the early twentieth century and taught at the Bezalel Academy of Art under...

Image dimensions: 34 x 19 cm. Der Büsser is an original print, realized in 1898. Black and white xylograph on applied Japon paper. Good conditions except for yellowing of paper (especially along the margins), and little stains on lower margin. The print was realized by Johann Jacob Weber and it's part of the series Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst (original title: SECHZEHN HOLZSCHNITTE NACH GEMÄLDEN ARNOLD BÖCKLIN...

Image dimensions: 24.5 x 31.5 cm. Centaur In The Smithy is an original print, realized in 1898. Black and white xylograph on applied Japon paper. Good conditions except for yellowing of paper (especially along the margins), and very light foxings on lower part of paper. The print was realized by Johann Jacob Weber and it's part of the series Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst (original title: SECHZEHN HOLZSCHNITTE NACH GEMÄLDEN ARNOLD BÖCKLIN...

Die tapferen Zehntausend is an book written by Carl Witt and illustrated by Max Slevogt (Landshut, 8 October 1868 – Leinsweiler , 20 September 1932) in 19...

Deutsches Dichterjubilaum is a book written by Arno Holz (1863 – 1929) and illustrated by Hans Steiner (1907-1962) and in 1923. Original First Edition. Published by Werkverlag, Be...

Métiers des Hommes is an Original Rare book written by Pierre Courthion (1902-1988) and illustrated by Kurt Seligmann (Basel, 1900 - Middletown, 1961) in 1936. Original Edition. Pu...

Meeting is a wonderful original print on brownish paper, realized by the French artist, Constantin Guys (1802 -1892). In very good condition, including a pet...

"Die Tanzerin Gertrud Bodenwieser" is an original colored héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1...

Original woodcut print on paper. Very good conditions. Includes passepartout. Image Dimensions : 10.7 x 11.3 cm Michel Fingesten (Butzkowitz, 1884 - Cerisano, 1943) was a Czech pai...

"Schutzengraben" is an original colored héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924). From Mappe,...

"Der Gute Hirte" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924). Fro...

"Sankt Franziskus" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924). F...

"Dante" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924). From Mappe, a...

"Lugenbrucke" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924). From M...

"Verfuhrung" is an original Black and white héliogravure on cream-colored cardboard realized by Choisy Le Conin, pseudonym of Franz Von Bayros (Agram, 1866 – Vienna, 1924). From Ma...

Judith III, paper/etching, 13.5x9.5 cm, 1987

La Danseuse is an heliogravure on paper, realized by the French artist, Guys Constantin (1802 -1892). In very good condition, including petrol-green colored cardboard passepartout, ...

Drypoint and aquatint (brown ink) on cream paper. Signed "Rehn" in pencil on the lower right margin. Titled and numbered in pencil on the lower left margin. Edition of 25 prints. Fr...

“Kolovrat”, cycle "We Are" Nowadays, many sacred knowledge have been lost, but Kolovrat has passed through the centuries! Kolovrat was of great importance for our ancestors, since t...

Artwork was created under the inspiration of the medieval sacred art of alchemy and mysticism. The sculpture is made in the form of a still life, which tells us an ancient legend abo...