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Exlibris Bookplate Cliche Jilovsky 1884-1958 Hippocrates Antique Owl

Exlibris Bookplate Cliche Jilovsky 1884-1958 Hippocrates Antique Owl

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    Bookplate Prof. Dr. Oskar Fischer. Statue of Hippocrates in a column frame, below it a pair of doves and a lyre, above it an owl.
    Jilovsky, Georg (1884-1958):
    1916. 100 x 76 mm. Two-tone cliché.
    Language: German
    Order number: 16280
    Comments: * Thieme-Becker 18; Vollmer 2; Gutenberg 5038; Humplik 35. - Signed and dated in the print. Born in Prague, he received his training at the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Then he works as a freelance graphic artist. He has created a good 120 bookplates; most of his clients come from the Prague intelligentsia and Schlaraffia. In 1943, because of his Jewish origins, he was deported to the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps, after which the Nazis moved him to Sachsenhausen and forced him to work in the so-called "Sonderkommando forgery workshop". He survived and in May 1945 he returned to Prague and resumed his artistic activity. - Small remnants of assembly on the back.
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    Bookplate Prof. Dr. Oskar Fischer. Statue of Hippocrates in a column frame, below it a pair of doves and a lyre, above it an owl. Comments: * Thieme-Becker 18; Vollmer 2; Gutenberg 5038; Humplik 35. - Signed and dated in the print. Born in Prague, he received his training at the School of Applied Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Then he works as a freelance graphic artist. He has created a good 120 bookplates; most of his clients come from the Prague intelligentsia and Schlaraffia. In 1943, because of his Jewish origins, he was deported to the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps, after which the Nazis moved him to Sachsenhausen and forced him to work in the so-called "Sonderkommando forgery workshop". He survived and in May 1945 he returned to Prague and resumed h