Capelari, Friedrich or Fritz (1884 Bleiburg - 1950 ibid.)

Lot 1712 limit € 8.000

2 color woodcuts, pair of tondi, depictions of birds by day and night, 1 x white pair of birds on the branch of a pomegranate tree with fruit, 1 x sleeping pair of birds on a blooming pomegranate branch under a crescent moon (white bird couple on a pomegranate branch (day and night) / White Birds on a Pomegranate Tree (Day and Night)), each monogrammed and dated 1915 in the print and signed in lead lower right and also dated 1915, unframed, paper slightly browned, otherwise in very good condition, depiction approx. 15 cm in diameter, sheet approx 21 x 21 cm, attached: the artist's original business card on the reverse. write by hand in pen Dear Mr. Privy Councilor Lenat! Attached are a series of woodcuts by me. The individual sheets cost 40 S. I would be very happy and grateful if you would keep some of them! With devoted greetings and thanks to your wife Your / Friedrich Capelari, Austrian painter and xylographer, many years of travel have taken him to Asia, including Japan and China, when the First World War broke out, Capelari was in Japan and was therefore unable to return home, beginning In 1915 the artist and publisher of color woodcuts Shozaburo Watanabe (1885-1962) saw an exhibition of Capelari's watercolours, Watanabe then published 12 of the artist's woodcuts and 2 other prints in 1918 and 1920 (source: Wikipedia).