FRÜHZEIT des Modernen Holzschnitts
The Linosaurus
Sunday 19 May 2024
Hans Schütz 1906
Saturday 23 March 2024
Alfred Möllner: "a kind of Nolde"
Alfred Möllner
(born Hildesheim 1930 - ?)
"Meer mit roten Wolken" |
Emil Nolde: €7,3.000.000 in a recent auction. |
Saturday 9 March 2024
Pont Neuf
Le Pont Neuf (Paris)
August Lepère |
Wednesday 28 February 2024
Lill Tschudi: 1944
Sooner than expected the question of attribution was solved by my American collecting friend and print expert Tom Clemens in Boston who's friend Ben Weiss, curator of Boston Museum of Arts, identified the print by a copy in New-York Metropolitan Museum of Art database in the Garfield collection.
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/835184
Its title, to me and my special collection, is adding an extra layer of interest and emotion to her work:
"Neue Flüchtlinge kommen ins Lager".
New, Jewish, refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in 1944, seeking and finding shelter, arriving in Switzerland. It also solves the question which side of the paper is front and besides gives insight in her actual printing technique and her use of materials.
Unexpectedly it is also of a frightening actuality.
During WW-II Switzerland sheltered some 300.000 mostly Jewish refugees, but controversially also send many back at its frontiers following the "all life boats are full" principle. A frightening and haunting resemblance and food-for-thought and contemplation to today's (European) migratory problems.
Tuesday 27 February 2024
Unknown Lill Tschudi ?
"Unbekannte" Lill Tschudi ?
Thursday 22 February 2024
Fernand Lambert 2: La Laitière
La Laitière
Recently this large drawing was discovered and rescued after being dismissed by its former owners. I think, as best as I can, the signature may read "Fernand Lambert 1903". But it could also be Fernande (she) and/or Cambier ........ Benezit Lexicon does not give any other serious candidates besides the painter Fernand Lambert (before post) who was born in Lyon but studied and had a career in Paris.Wednesday 21 February 2024
Fernand Lambert 1
Fernand Alexis Lambert (1868-1934/35)
was a not very well known French landscape painter and critic. He was born in Lyon, studied in Paris under Bougereau and is known by half a dozen really nice (post)-impressionist landscapes and river scenes (Rhone in Lyon nd Seine in Paris). He has only a few lines in Benezit, artists lexicon and the pictures of his works are scratched together from the Internet.