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Emil Lindenfeld, American 1905-1986 browse these categories for related items... Directory: Fine Art:Paintings:Oil:N. America:American: Pre 1970: Item # 773689
SUSQUEHANNA Antique Company, Inc. 3216 O Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20007 (202)333-1511 Guest Book $1600 |
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| Oil on canvas, signed lower left, 24" x 36" inscribed with title verso: Indian Island, Nova Scotia Canada, priced unframed. Biography from AskART: The following is from Don Purcell of New York City, who knew the artist personally. Born in Hungary, Emil Lindenfeld studied there under Janos Tornai and Sandor Fay. In 1926, he went to Italy where he lived and painted for 30 years and received the honor of election to the Councilor of Italian Fine Arts in 1946. In 1956, at the time of the uprising in Hungary, he emigrated to New York City with his first wife, who had survived the concentration camps and whose dream was to come to America. An interesting anecdote is that Emil and Eva were booked to sail on the ill-fated Andrea Doria, with his life's work of several hundred paintings. Fortunately the Italian government caused much red tape over the departure of classic Italian art work. If it were not for this bureaucratic delay, his best work would be at the bottom of the Atlantic. The Lindenfelds then sailed on the sister ship of the Doria. Lindenfeld's work was exhibited at Barnard College, the New York Coliseum (1957) with Frank Lloyd Wright, and in the 1960s, exhibitions of Lindenfeld's work were held in Charlotte, North Carolina (1966 & 1968, 1976); Detroit, Michigan (1969) and Weirton, West Virginia (1969, 1970). From April 2-May 31, 1983, he had a one-man show, "The World of Emil Lindenfeld," at the Morris Museum of Arts and Sciences in Morristown, New Jersey. Purcell says he is unsure where the artist died; "however, they lived in a large rural home near Bedminster, New Jersey (horse country). Based on his age at time of death, a safe assumption is that he either died at home or a nearby north Jersey hospital. " "About 'Il Vino e Buono', (the image on the artist's Summary Page) I recall the anecdote about its inspiration. Emil and his first wife Eva were picnicking at a cemetery near Milan, when he observed two hobos drinking wine. Emil immediately took out a notebook and sketched the happy couple and painted them when he got home. Although Emil's title was 'Il Vino e Buono (the Wine is Good), my wife and I who have owned the painting since 1958, affectionately renamed it 'Pepe and Giacomo'. " Following are excerpts from the catalogue of the Morris Museum exhibit: "His impressionistic technique, with fast fleeting reverberations of romanticism, is really a dream mystique as potent as the furthest depths of the human psyche. . . .Often Mr. Lindenfeld assumes the place of a clairvoyant by approaching the role of a mystic poet turning all meaning upside down and inside out. . . .Lindenfeld's paintings are filled with simple people, villagers, nomads, and gypsies who speak to us loud and clear. There seems to be a prevailing spirit of St. Francis again and again reiterated if only we could ponder it. . . .Many of the compositions of Lindenfeld are dictated by an eccentricity divorced from all common sense and normal behavior. He has always before him the unreachable goal of the symbolists's search for the ideal." COLLECTIONS-EUROPEAN MUSEUMS Galleria D'Arge Moderna Milan Museo Castello Sforzesco, Milan Mseo Nazionale Forestale, Rome Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Verona, Italy Museo Civico Vicenz, italy Museo Civico Asiago, italy Museo Civico, Padova, Italy City Museum Hodmezovasarhely, Hungary Galerie National Hongroise, Budapest | ||
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