Michael Fingesten Ex Libris Book Plate Signed Numbered LARGE Colored Nude Music
The plate is approximately 12.25 x 9.75 inches, looks fantastic. The art is signed by Fingesten lower right in pencil. It is also numbered in pencil 3 / 50, one of a very small limited edition. Biography of Fingesten from Colorado dot edu. Michel Fingesten was born Michl Finkelstein in 1884 in the village of Buckovice (Buczkowitz), Silesia, in the Habsburg Empire, now part of the Czech Republic, from a Czech-Jewish father and an Italian-Jewish mother, and died in 1943 in Cerisano, Calabria, after the liberation by the allies of the camp in which he had been interned since 1941. He was one of the most original and productive graphic artists and bookplates designers of the twentieth century. Little is known about his early years, though there is agreement that he studied art in Vienna and Munich, traveled to America, - where he spent four years and witnessed the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, - China, and Australia, until in 1913 he settled in Berlin where he enjoyed great popularity as book and magazine illustrator.
He fled Nazi Germany in 1936 and settled in Milan, where he built a circle of patrons who commissioned and avidly collected his works, until he was confined to the Fascist internment camp of Civitella del Tronto in 1940, and then transferred in 1941 to that of Ferramonti-Tarsia near Cosenza, Calabria. He died shortly after the liberation of the camp in 1943, apparently as the result of a woundinfection after surgery in a military hospital. Fingensten was especially popular as a creator of bookplates or.
(the Latin term meaning "From the books of. "), a genre that appealed to the taste of elites in the late 19th and early 20th century. Fingesten's ingenuity was boundless even while working within severe spatial restraints, as the bookplates were usually pasted on the inside front cover of the collector's books. In Fingesten's hands, the bookplate transcends its utilitarian and decorative function and claims our attention as an independent work of art.
The university acquired in 2011 a large collection of Fingesten's works, including 154 items, which had been assembled by an unknown collector, possibly Fridolf Johnson, bibliophile and editor of the. 10 Eaux-Fortes de genre phantastique, symbolique, grotesque, lyrique, satyrique, tragique sur des motifs érotiques.
(10 Etchings of the Fantastic, Symbolic, Grotesque, Lyrical, Satirical, Tragic Genre on Erotic Motives). Fingesten's inspiration shifted throughout his career between the erotic and the political. Especially in the years leading up to WWII, Fingesten's work takes on a new, almost prophetic tone in denouncing the dangers of the impending catastrophe. And yet, in spite of his tragic life and times, despair is never the last word in Fingesten's work.
His stoicism is best summed up in the motto for a 1939 bookplate: Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. Meglio morire in piedi che vivere in ginocchio. This item is in the category "Art\Art Prints". The seller is "hermansantiques" and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Uruguay.- Size: Small
- Handmade: Yes
- Artist: Michael Fingesten
- Framing: Unframed
- Style: Vintage, Antique, Historically Important
- Item Height: 12.25 in
- Material: Paper
- Time Period Produced: 1925-1949
- Type: Print
- Title: Ex Libris Mantero
- Features: Signed, #3 in an edition of 50, Numbered
- Subject: Ex Libris, Bass, Music, Stand Up Bass, Nudes
- Item Length: 9,75 in
- Signed: Yes
- Signed By: Michael Fingesten
- Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
- Unit of Sale: Single-Piece Work
- Print Surface: Paper
- Original/Licensed Reproduction: Original