Online Auction 06 - Jewish Art and Artists
Catalogue and Photo Album – Figdor Collection – Artistic Wood Furniture
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* Die Holzmöbel der Sammlung Figdor, Dr. Hans Stegmann. Published by von Artaria & Co. Vienna, 1907. German.
A sales cataloge with details about the wood furniture of Dr. Albert Figdor, a private Jewish-Austrian collector. The collection consists of rare items from the Renaissance and forward. In 1891 Dr. Figdor offered to donate his collections of art and Judaica to the art museum in Vienna but being Jewish, he was refused. Over the years, the collections were sold to collectors and museums worldwide. Some items of the Judaica Collection reached the Jewish Museum in Vienna. Leather and marbled paper binding.
[1], 122 pp, 33 cm. Fair-good condition. Age-related stains. Several leaved stuck to each other. Ex Libris.
* Photograph album of the collection furniture on display with a photograph of Dr. Albert Figdor at the beginning, leather binding, gilt edges. Bound by Fred Bakala and signed with gold embossing on the inner side of the binding.
[1] leaf, [21] picture mounted on album leaves, 33 cm. Very good condition. Cardboard leaves somewhat wavy. Spine partly torn.
Literature: Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siécle Vienna, Elana Shapira. Published by Brandeis University Press, 2016.
A sales cataloge with details about the wood furniture of Dr. Albert Figdor, a private Jewish-Austrian collector. The collection consists of rare items from the Renaissance and forward. In 1891 Dr. Figdor offered to donate his collections of art and Judaica to the art museum in Vienna but being Jewish, he was refused. Over the years, the collections were sold to collectors and museums worldwide. Some items of the Judaica Collection reached the Jewish Museum in Vienna. Leather and marbled paper binding.
[1], 122 pp, 33 cm. Fair-good condition. Age-related stains. Several leaved stuck to each other. Ex Libris.
* Photograph album of the collection furniture on display with a photograph of Dr. Albert Figdor at the beginning, leather binding, gilt edges. Bound by Fred Bakala and signed with gold embossing on the inner side of the binding.
[1] leaf, [21] picture mounted on album leaves, 33 cm. Very good condition. Cardboard leaves somewhat wavy. Spine partly torn.
Literature: Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siécle Vienna, Elana Shapira. Published by Brandeis University Press, 2016.
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