Graphic work of month. Ferdinand Springer.

2014/02/03-2014/02/15

Ferdinand Springer. Fleur-Prélude.  15/220. Aiguafort (56x38, 36x23). 150 €.

Ferdinand Springer (1907 – 1998) was born in Berlin but when he was 20 years old he moved to Paris where he studied at the Académie Ranson under Roger Bissière. He studied engraving at Atelier 17 with Stanley William Hayer. In 1939 he was interned in the French concentration camp at Tuileries des Milles. After his liberation in 1940 together with Hans Arp, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Sonia Delaunay and Albert Magnelli Springer formed part of Grupo de Grasse. In 1945, after some years in Switzerland, he came back to Paris.

You can see this work at the Galeria Joan Gaspar (Barcelona) from February, 3.   

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