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German Expressionist Batik browse these categories for related items... All Items: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Textiles: Hangings: Pre 1920: item # 279779
The Condon Kay Collection Post Office Box 2008 East Hampton, NY 11937 (631) 907-4294 Guest Book $5,000 |
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| HERMAN SACHS. Batik on silk, 38 1/2” (height) by 58” (length), the composition in red, pink, blue, green and black; initialed (as part of the wax resist process) “H.S.” lower right corner. Attached to what is probably the original cotton backing with yarn stitching around the border. A 5/8” x 13” section along the lower left edge has been replaced (or perhaps the original composition was extended here in order to make the work square), this small batiked strip attached to the batik proper with pink yarn. In fine state, the colors brilliant. Provenance: estate of the artist. No date (circa 1917-1920); probably, created by Sachs for the Munich Expressionist Werkstätten (see below). Unframed. Herman Sachs (1889 (Rumania)- 1940 (Hollywood, CA)). Decorator, muralist, administrator, teacher. Sachs came to the United States as a child and was first trained under his father, a court painter to Carmen Silva. He continued his training in Europe and after some travel he founded the Munich School of Expressionists. He returned to the United States shortly after WWI and at some time assisted his father in designing interiors for both public and private buildings in France, Russia, Rumania, Italy, Austria, Germany and America. Also, at some time he participated in archaeological expeditions in Egypt and Pompeii. In the 1920s he started the Chicago Industrial Art School, which failed because of insufficient funds and afterwards founded the Dayton Industrial School of Art, which foundered for the same reason. Sachs came to Los Angeles about 1925 to make the decorations for the new Gas Company building, and though he was briefly in Florida afterwards, appears to have been in Southern California in the 1930s, at which time he directed the Creative Art Students League of Los Angeles. (Biographical information derived from Nancy Moure, Art and Artists in Southern California Before 1930. The “Munich School of Expressionists” cited by Moure was in fact the Munich Expressionist Werkstätten, founded by Sachs in the teens. We have handled other properties produced by the Workshops, including handpainted pastepaper bookbindings, watercolors, embroidery, designs for decorative papers, and photographs; these last, with “MEW” labels verso, documented the Workshops’ craft designs, including expressionist dolls and puppets.) Sachs’ aesthetic and extensive knowledge of progressive painting and craft techniques are elaborated in his "Lehrbuch der Maltechnik" (Berlin: Wasmuth, 1927, a copy provided with the batik), where the author’s work is reproduced as illustrations of the techniques imparted: “Vollständige Anleitung zum werkstattmässigen Herstellen von Fresco-, Fresco-secco, Stucco-lustro-, Tempera-, Kaseïn- und Ölmalereien. Mit Anhang über die Herstellungsmethoden von Stuckmarmor-Intarsia, Sgraffito, Stucco-lustro-Reliefs.” | |||||||||
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