Eros Immaterialis. -- tizennégy litográfiája. A bevezetést Eisler Mihály József írta. Eros Immaterialis. Vierzehn Lithographien von Victor Erdei. Vorwort von Michael Joseph Eisler.
Budapest: (Nádas Ignác – Révai és Salamon – Fodor János), 1910. Only edition. Numbered (43/180). Text in German and Hungarian. The plates are printed on Japanese paper. In half cloth folder with lithograph title vignette. Ornamented inner papers printed in silver. 8 pages and 14 plates.
Viktor Erdei (Epstein; 1879–1945) was a Jewish-Hungarian painter, graphic artist and sculptor. His master was Simon Hollósy, painter who is considered one of the greatest Hungarian representatives of the 19th century Naturalism and Realism, founder of the Nagybánya Artists’ Colony which was the cradle of modern Hungarian painting. Erdei was member of the Nagybánya circle. He also studied in Munich and Paris. Since 1924 lived in Nagyszőlős (now in Ukraine, Виноградів) and studied the customs and traditions of the local Jewish community. He organized an exhibition of his related drawings in Budapest in 1934. Erdei survived the Holocaust in the Ghetto of Budapest, but a few months after the liberation died in March, 1945.
These fourteen graphics of this portfolio have a transcendent atmosphere with the impression of Art Nouveau.
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Price: €1,200.00