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Auction 16 · Lot 275
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
- Estimate
- $1,000–$1,500
- Hammer price
- $600
Historical auction record. Hammer prices exclude buyer’s premium and taxes.
author
FECHENBACH, HERMANN
Place
German, 1930’s-40’s
Description
* 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
summary
Fechenbach was a German-Jewish refugee in England. During the War he was interred as an enemy-alien in Douglas, Isle of Man