Luigi Kasimir (Austro-Hungarian, 1881-1962)
500 Fifth Avenue, New York
etching, estate pencil signed center
visible image measures approximately: 12" W x 17 1/2" H
sheet measures approximately: 18 3/8" W x 24 3/8" H
mat measures approximately: 19 3/4" W x 25 1/4" H
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About Luigi Kasimir
Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 in the town of Pettau, Slovenia, at that time a part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. He attended the Vienna Academy of Art, where William Unger gave him his first introduction to the technique of color etching.
Kasimir was among the first to develop the technique of color etching. Before him, etchings were usually hand colored, often with less than perfect color application, or color etchings were printed from one plate. Kasimir first did a sketch from nature, usually in pastel. Then he transferred the design by hand on as many as two to six plates, printing one after the other by hand, applying the color on the plate by hand so each finished etching is a true original.
Kasimir died in 1962 in Grinzing, a suburb of Vienna.
His etchings are held in the collections of numerous galleries and museums including The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle.
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