Bela Czobel, Two 2 German Expressionist Prints & Colophon, 1923 Die Schaffenden

Description: Bela Czobel (Hungary/France, 1883 - 1976)Madchenkopf, 1923 and Madchen, 1923Lithograph and etchingSigned lower right 16 by 12 inches (page)9 1/2 by 4 3/4 inches (plate, etching)Published by Euphorion Verlag, Berlin From Die Schaffenden, 4. Jahrgang, 1. Mappe, 1924. With the original colophon. From the printing of 125.Fine vintage condition. Never framed. Bela Czabel, (Hungarian form Czóbel Béla) was born September 4, 1883, in Budapest, Hungary and died January 30, 1976, in Budapest). He was a painter and graphic artist, and one of the most highly regarded figures in 20th-century Hungarian arts. Czobel was a student of Béla Iványi Grünwald at the Free School of Painting in Nagybánya (now Baia Mare, Romania), and from 1902 to 1903, he studied in Munich and at the Académie Julian* in Paris. At the Salon d'Automne,* he exhibited his work with Fauvist* artists, and his 1905 painting Kislány ágy elott ("Little Girl in Front of a Bed") was influenced by Fauvism. In 1911 he became a member of the Nyolcak ("The Eight"), an influential Modernist group in Budapest. From 1914 he lived in the Netherlands and later in Berlin. His unique cityscapes, interiors, and portraits, which had an oppressive ambience reminiscent of the German Expressionist* school, were exhibited in Berlin and then in Budapest. In 1925 he moved to Paris, where he remained for 15 years and where he produced most of his mature works, some of which include Gyümölcscsendélet ("Still Life with Fruits") and Ülo akt ("Sitting Nude"), both completed in 1929, as well as Múzsa ("A Muse"), from 1930. In 1929 he held a one-man exhibition in New York City. After World War II, he worked in Paris in the winter and in Szentendre, a picturesque Hungarian town, in the summer. He was awarded the Kossuth Prize in 1948. Among the important paintings he produced in his later years are Csendélet chiantis üveggel (1953; "Still Life with Bottle of Chianti") and Rózsaszín ruhás lány (1958; "Girl in a Pink Dress"). Listing a large group of German Expressionist prints from the Ismar Littmann Family Collection of German Expressionism and European Avant-Garde. As Swann wrote in its 2019 offering where this print was purchased, “Few collectors in Breslau during the early 1900s had a passion for connoisseurship, collecting and the visual arts equal to Ismar Littmann (1878-1934). Born in Gross Strehlitz, Upper Silesia, between Breslau and Kraków, Littmann completed doctoral studies of law in 1902 and several years later settled in Breslau where he established a legal practice. As his business grew over the next decade and he became enmeshed in Breslau’s art scene, Littmann began acquiring art with an unabated intensity from the late 1910s to the late 1920s. He married Käthe Frankel in 1907 and partnered with the lawyer Max Loewe to establish the firm of Littmann and Loewe around 1921. By the end of the 1920s, Littmann had amassed a collection of more than 6,000 works of art, incorporating some 300 oil paintings, 50 major watercolors and the remainder (more than 5,500 total), predominantly works on paper, including prints and drawings. His pursuit, aside from an unbridled enthusiasm for collecting, appears to have been ultimately to establish a permanent public collection for many of his works. Though he lent some to significant exhibitions in Breslau in 1929, 1930 and 1933, and was a co-founder of the Breslau Jewish Museum, his vision for a public collection went unfulfilled, halted by the Nazis’ rise to power and his ensuing personal misfortune.

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