Pair of Letters from the Artist Hermann Struck. 1928-1929

Pair of Letters from the Artist Hermann Struck. 1928-1929

[2] letters from the artist Hermann Struck, one in his handwriting and the other typewritten. Late 1920's.

* Specifications: [1] leaf, official paper with the artist's address in Israel and in Berlin. 14x22 cm. August 24, 1928. German. Written in Hermann Struck's handwriting and with his signature.

Content: In this letter Struck asks the recipient to attach silver plate with small nails added to the frame and to send the picture to David Yellin or Jesaias Press. At the end of the letter, Struck notifies that he intends to return after Succot.

Condition: Fine. Aging stains, fold marks, tiny hole in the margins of the letter without damage to text.

* Specifications: [1] leaf, paper with the artist's name embossed at the top of the leaf. 15x20 cm. [Land of Israel], January 9, 1929. German. Typewritten. Signed by Struck by hand.

Content: Struck writes to Mr. Shor abut his correspondence with Mrs. Epstein in New York. She reported to him that due to the financial catastrophe in America, only one picture was sold in the exhibition there, and that she will try to display the exhibition in another center of Jewish art in New York. An addition from Mrs. Mali Struck to Mrs. Shor is at the end of the letter.

Condition: Moderate - fine. Fold marks, aging stains.

Hermann Struck [1876-1944], German-Jewish painter and engraver artist, born to an Orthodox family in Berlin, Zionist and one of the founders of the Mizrachi, he studied in the Art Academy in Berlin and Holland. Chagall, Max Liebermann, Jozef Israëls were just a few of his students. He immigrated to Israel in 1922, but continued to visit his studio in Berlin annually, until 1933.