Robert Budzinski

Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht (Face of Mankind, Light)

Robert Budzinski - "Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht" (Face of Mankind, Light) - Original Linocut: The linocut was an important element of Robert Budzinski's art. Between 1910 and 1920 he employed the medium to express both fantastical and humorous images. Also, Budzinski's affiliation with Lebensreform and Wandervogel is clearly evident in his original linocuts. These movements were anti-industrial and anti-urban and advocated many of the sentiments which we now associate with the anti-establishment culture of the 1960's. Thus "Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht" (Face of Mankind, Light) may represent a search for a new Utopia.

This original linocut is printed upon wove paper and with full margins as created by the artist around 1920. It is signed and annotated in pencil by Robert Budzinski along the lower margin. "Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht" (Face of Mankind, Light) is a fine, original example of the art created by the East German (Prussian) artist, Robert Budzinski.

Original Linocut by the German artist, Robert Budzinski.

Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht (Face of Mankind, Light)

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Robert Budzinski (Klein-Schlafken, East Prussia (Germany), 1874 - Marburg, 1955)
#	Image	Title & Engraver	Medium	Date	Info
01-		Abend in Wald (Evening in the Forest) by Robert Budzinski	Original Woodcut	1917	Signed and titled in pencil by Robert Budzinski.
02.-		Michelangelo by Robert Budzinski	Original Linocut	c. 1910 - 1920	Signed and titled in pencil by Robert Budzinski.
03.-		MadchensKopf (Girl's Head) by Robert Budzinski	Original Drypoint Engraving	1917	Signed, titled, dated and numbered, '10' in pencil by Robert Budzinski.
04.-		Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht (Face of Mankind, Light) by Robert Budzinski	Original Linocut	c. 1910 - 1920	Signed and titled in pencil by Robert Budzinski.
05.-		Unknown Title, Gesicht der Menschheit (Series, Face of Mankind) by Robert Budzinski	Original Linocut	c. 1910 - 1920	Signed and titled in pencil by Robert Budzinski.

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Title:	Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht (Face of Mankind, Light)
Artist:	Budzinski, Robert (Klein-Schlafken, East Prussia (Germany), 1874 - Marburg, 1955)
Date:	c. 1910 - 1920
Medium:	Original Linocut
Note:	Robert Budzinski: An important East German (specifically Prussian) artist of the early twentieth century, Robert Budzinski is famous both for his original prints and illustrated books. Robert Budzinski both wrote and illustrated such books as "Entdeckung Ostdeutschlands" ,1914, ('Discovery in Eastern Germany'), "Kuri-neru, and Der Mond fallt auf Westpreusen" ('The Moon is in West Prussia'). As well, he illustrated numerous literary works, such as Theodor Storm's, "Die Sohne des Senators" (1924), and (beginning in 1920) created and published the "Ostmarkkalender".
	As an original printmaker, Robert Budzinski was equally adept at etching, lithography, woodcuts and linocuts. As well as creating individual works of art in these media, such as this original linocut, he was frequently commissioned for his ex-libris bookplates. He most often printed his own works. Few were published in numbered editions but it is known that most were printed in small numbers of twenty-five impressions or less.
	Stylistically, Robert Budzinski has sometimes been described as an Impressionist. His oeuvre, however, is far too varied for any such classification. Within Robert Budzinski's graphic art we see the work of a constant innovator and experimenter. Drawing upon Impressionistic, Symbolist and Expressionistic elements, his art is clearly both unique and compelling. Between 1910 and 1920 Budzinski employed the linocut medium to express both fantastical and humorous images. Also, the artist's affiliation with Lebensreform and Wandervogel is clearly evident in his original linocuts. "Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht" may represent search for a new Utopia.
	During his career Robert Budzinski was an active participant in the Wandervogel and Lebensreform movements. The Lebensreform Bewegung ('Life Reform movement') was a loosely organized but widespread phenomenon in early twentieth century Germany which opposed the rise of industrialization and urbanization. It advocated such varied activities as naturalistic agriculture, medicine and nutrition.
	Robert Budzinski lived and worked in the east Prussian cities of Konitz, Konigsberg and Marburg. Today his art is included in such collections as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Universitatsmuseum fur Kunst and Kulturgeschichte, Marburg.
Size:	7 1/8 X 5 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Buy Now	Price: $485.00 US
Condition:	Printed upon wove paper and with full margins as created by the artist around 1920. A strongly printed impression and in very good condition throughout. Signed and annotated in pencil along the lower margin. "Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht" (Face of Mankind, Light) represents a brilliant, original example of the linocut art of Robert Budzinski.
Subject:	"Gesicht der Menschheit, Licht" (Face of Mankind, Light), Robert Budzinski, original linocut, fantastical and humorous images, East Prussian artist, Wandervogel, Lebensreform Bewegung, Kuri-neru, anti-establishment culture of the 1960's, Utopia.
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