Michel Fingesten

3 albums/50 Artworks – Michel Fingesten (1884 – 1943) was a Czech-Austrian painter and graphic artist of Jewish descent. He was one of the most original and prolific graphic artists and bookplates designers of the twentieth century.According to the Italian journalist and critic Giampiero Mughini, “Fingesten is to the history of the ex libris as Pablo Picasso is to that of painting” In 1900, at the age of 16, he left to study at the Art Academy in Vienna, where Oskar Kokoschka was studying at the same time, but left after only two years. From 1902 to 1906 he undertook a trip around the world, travelling to America,—where he spent four years and witnessed the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco,—and thence to China…

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