Emma Bormann - HOLZSCHNITT - Sold

BORMANN EMMA DÖBLING -WIEN 1887 - RIVERSIDE - CAL. 1974 Holzschnitt 20 x 30 cm bis zum Holzrand , 30x 40 cm das Blatt auf Bütten . Mit Bleistift signiert , Exemplar 19 von 100. Versand flach 6.- ¬ . Note: Emma Bormann: A talented Austrian woodcut artist, Emma Bormann studied printmaking techniques at the Academy of Vienna. Her first woodcuts were published in 1917 and during the following two decades she created landscapes and city views of Munich, Vienna, Paris, Florence, Venice, Dalmatia and Istanbul. Bormann's original woodcuts were widely exhibited throughout Europe. After the Second World War, Emma Bormann continued to travel and work extensively. During the early 1950's, she produced woodcuts of New York, Washington and San Francisco. Further travels took her to China. In 1957 she resided in Japan and created a series of splendid woodcuts detailing Japanese Imperial dances. Today the original woodcuts of Emma Bormann are included in many prominent collections, including the Stadtbibliothek, Vienna, and the Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco.. During the early twentieth century leading art journals around the world published original etchings, lithographs and woodcuts on a regular basis. Some of the greatest prints from this vital era were commissioned and published by The Studio, in London, Pan, in Germany, The Print Connoisseur, in America and Vervielfaltigende Kunst, in Vienna.