Print of the Day!! Tuesday, February 6, 2024 is by American AbEx printmaker John von Wicht (1888-1970).
Print of the Day!! Tuesday, February 6, 2024. Is by American AbEx printmaker John von Wicht (1888-1970).
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"Transition" is a lithograph by American AbEx printmaker John von Wicht, done around 1955. The image measures 28-8/8 x 19-1/8 inches. It is pencil signed, titled, dated, and editioned "Ed 15" by the artist in the lower margin. It was printed by the artist and master printer Bob Blackburn on a sheet of cream wove paper that measures 30 x 21-5/8 inches. There is also a second edition of 10 with red inks. The gallery inventory number for this work is 13528.
This scarce abstract, surreal lithograph by American printmaker John von Wicht is available for purchase from the gallery for $900.00.
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In the late 1940s Von Wicht was known for his geometric cubist works, particularly influenced by Kandinsky and the work he had seen as a young man in Germany. After moving to the US he worked in the WPA and exhibited with the American Abstract Artists group. During the 1950s, his sensuously colored geometric abstractions gave way to loose, expressionistic forms.
This lithograph uses an interplay between whites, grays and blacks, a composition of geometric shapes that seem to dance on the surface and anticipates his later gestural Abstract Expressionist work. Von Wicht printed a second edition of this print in color. Both editions were printed collaborating with Master Printer Bob Blackburn. In 1949 Von Wicht and Will Barnet helped Blackburn, who was the Master Printer at the Art Students League, open his own printshop in New York. The rest is print world history.
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John Von Wicht painter, muralist, printmaker, and mosaicist, was born Johannes Von Wicht on 3 February 1888 in Malente, Germany. At the age of seventeen, he apprenticed as a craftsman in a painting and decorating shop and spent his spare time drawing from nature. In 1909-1910, he studied applied arts at the Privatschule of Hesse-Darmstadt. With a three-year scholarship to the Royal School of Fine and Applied Arts in Berlin, Von Wicht studied lithography, mosaics and stained glass and received his Bachelor of Arts in 1912
During World War I, Von Wicht was wounded but he devoted his time to book design and illustration work during his long recovery. Unable to find employment as a craftsman after the war, he emigrated to the United States in 1923. Settling in Brooklyn Heights, Von Wicht found employment with a lithography company and as an artisan making stained glass and mosaics. In 1936 he became a naturalized citizen and was soon hired on the mural painting division of the Federal Art Project/WPA. He collaborated with Stuart Davis, Byron Browne and Louis Schanker on a mural for Radio Station WNYC and today Von Wicht's mural is on long-term loan with the Brooklyn Public Library.
Von Wicht combined geometric abstraction and dense color in his paintings. In the late 1930s, he exhibited with the American Abstract Artists group and the Federation of Modern Painters and Sculptors and, in 1939, his first solo show opened in New York at the Theodor A. Kohn Gallery. In 1944, he exhibited oils and gouaches at The Artist Gallery and, the following year, he showed at the Kleeman Gallery. During World War II, Von Wicht served as captain of a supply barge ferrying food to army transport ships in New York harbor. Harbor themes began to appear in his abstractions and, during the 1950s, his sensuously colored geometric abstractions gave way to loose expressionistic forms.
In 1954 Von Wicht received the first of twelve annual residencies at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire. Von Wicht exhibited his prints regularly with the New York Painter-Printmakers and the 14 Painter-Printmakers group. In 1959, a traveling exhibition of his work was organized by the Galerie Internationale d'Art Contemporaine in Paris. In the 1960s he purchased a cabin in Majorca and divided his year with summers there and winters in at the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire.
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