Original Signed Color Litograph of a Semi-nude Figure by Walter Spitzer, Listed Polish Artist

Fine Art : Printmaking : Lithograph

 

Unique original color lithograph by the listed Polish artist Walter Spitzer. Signed in pencil below the plate. Paper measures 8 ½ by 11 inches. Titled in pencil on the verso “Oeuvre Romanesque.” Excellent condition. Great semi erotic subject matter featuring a semi nude mother breast feeding a young child, or at least that is what I make it out to be. This work is sold unframed.

Walter Spitzer was born in Poland. His parents escaped the pogroms and the family stayed in hiding in France until 1944.

In 1945, Spitzer was a student at the illustrious Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. At age 19, he was asked to make the scenery for the Edouard VII Theater in Paris, which was showing "The Dibbouk" of Ansky. In 1947 the same theater asked him to make the scenery for the "Hill of Life" (Max Zveig).

Spitzer has been a member of the "Salon d'automne" since 1952. He is the only remaining survivor of this Montparnasse "Ecole de Paris".

Like Kikoine and Kremegne, Spitzer's works manifest excellence. Similar to Chagall, one of his main inspirations is the Old Testament/Talmud. Many of his themes have also reflected the horrors of the Holocaust.

Spitzer has also worked as an illustrator and author. Like Mariette Lydis, he has provided illustrations for works by Jean-Paul Sartre and several other notable authors, including André Malraux.

Spitzer is also an accomplished author inhis own right, having written La Peinture and Saved by Design: Buchenwald.

Spitzer has received countless coveted awards and prizes. He is exceptionally well listed. His works are in the collections of major museums throughout the world.

Item ID: SPI08192006