AUCTION 22: FALL EUROPEAN DECORATIVE ART AUCTION on September 20 2020 11:00 AM

A RARE ALBUM OF JERZY ZIELEZINSKI DRAWINGS

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Start price: $300

Estimated price: $500 - $700

Buyer's premium: 25%

Sales Tax: On buyer's premium only

An extremely rare album "24 DRAWINGS FROM CONCENTRATION CAMPS IN GERMANY by George Zielezinski / In rotogravure". Jerzy Zielezinski was a Polish-American artist and illustrator survived imprisonment in a concentration camp. He was the first artist who gave an artistic certificate of the daily life of prisoners in concentration camps. In 1946 Zielezinski released two albums that related to his experience in the Warsaw ghetto and in concentration camps and which demonstrated daily life in the camp from arrival to end. This album is an expanded version of the first album (it was released a little earlier and contained 18 drawings). Printed by F. Bruckmann KG, Munich under the title "George Zielezinski" with a circulation of 1000 copies.

Dimensions: 16 1/16 x 12 in. (40.8 x 30.5 cm.) 

Condition: Excellent