Negerin mit Korb (Negress with basket)

 

Hermann Lismann

  1878 - 1943

c. 1920  

woodcut 

11 3/4 x 6 1/8" image 

pencil, lower right 

numbered 9 from an unstated edititon 

pencil titled, numbered "9", annotated: "Original Handdruck" 

 

antique-white wove vellum 

published 

artist 

17770 

$500.00 

Munich born German Jewish artist Hermann Lismann taught at the Kulturband Jewish art studio in Frankfurt in the early 30's. Lisman fled to France in 1933 where he had been interned, escaped, and was recaptured and deported to Chelm. In 1943 he was sent to the Majdanek death camp where he was put to death. Lismann published a portfolio of 14 woodcuts to illustrate Gustave Flaubert's "Die Versuchung des Heiligen Antonius. This woodcut was handprinted by the artist