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[Franz Gertiz portrait drawings and prints].
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[Franz Gertiz portrait drawings and prints]Creator/Contributor:
Geritz, Franz, creator, artist.Abstract:
Chiefly portrait sketches and woodblock portraits executed by Franz Geritz in the early 1920s. Among the subjects are actors,
dancers and other entertainers. Identified subjects of original works: Verna Gordon in "Javanese Dance", Isabel Latimore,
Nicholas Roerich, Christopher Carson, John Ferguson, Jeannette Abel, Jacob Lukin as "The Demon" and "A Magyar" (self portrait).
Subjects depicted in clippings include Lucien Muratore, Alla Nazimova, Frank Keenan, Philine Falco, Hubert Stowitts, William
Conselman and Mina Conselman. Also includes a few landscapes, including depictions of Mount Shasta, Mono Lake and Lake Arrowhead.
Date:
1921 (issued)Subject:
n-us---Geritz, Franz
Portraits -- California -- Los Angeles
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Title devised by cataloger.
Many works signed "F. Geritz" and dated by the artist.
37 drawings, 9 woodblock prints and 2 etchings.
Received by library in generic album; leaves disbound for ease of access; album cover discarded.
Also includes clippings and photocopies of articles pertaining to Geritz's work.
One print is inscribed "To Jean Keller, most respectfully"; a clipping is inscribed "To Jean, a most intense spirit, creator
and influence, from Franz Geritz"; a work reproduced in a clipping is titled "Jean".
Franz Gertiz drawings and prints, BANC PIC 2020.106, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Purchase ; from Carpe Diem Fine Books ; 2020.
Franz Geritz (1895-1945): born in Budapest, Hungary; immigrated to the United States in 1909; lived in Chicago and Philadelphia
before moving to California; graduated from California College of Arts and Crafts (Oakland) in 1921; studied under Perham
Nahl, Xavier Martinez, and Frank Van Sloun; settled in Los Angeles in the early 1920s; married Josephine Heintz in 1927; taught
at University of California Extension, Los Angeles; died in Los Angeles.
Type:
graphicPortraits.
Landscapes (representations).
Drawings.
Woodcuts.
Etchings.
Physical Description:
photoprint
48 items in 3 folders : pencil drawings, woodblock prints and etchings on paper ; sheets 42 x 28 cm or smaller
Language:
English