Woodcut. Depicting the Seven Days of Creation and Festivals. Flanked by a Jew at prayer and Jewish pioneer. Signed by artist in pencil lower right. 290x400 mm image size

AUCTION 16 | Tuesday, June 25th, 2002 at 1:00

Important Hebrew Printed Books and Manuscripts From the Library of the London Beth Din

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Lot 275

FECHENBACH, HERMANN

Woodcut. Depicting the Seven Days of Creation and Festivals. Flanked by a Jew at prayer and Jewish pioneer. Signed by artist in pencil lower right. 290x400 mm image size

* Together with five woodcut portraits (one of Chaim Weizmann); and a further seven woodcuts, most of ceremonial scenes, one of the Isle of Man (colored). Together 13 woodcuts

German, 1930’s-40’s:

Est: $1,000 - $1,500

PRICE REALIZED $600

Fechenbach was a German-Jewish refugee in England. During the War he was interred as an enemy-alien in Douglas, Isle of Man