Emil Weddige

The Colosseum

Emil Weddige's original lithograph, The Colosseum most poignantly describes the poverty and devastation left by the Second World War. This lithograph is printed upon hand-made, laid paper bearing the 'BFK Rives' watermark and with full deckled margins as published in an edition of two hundred and fifty impressions or less in Paris in 1949. The Colosseum is a fine, original example of the lithographic art created by the American artist, Emil Weddige.

The Colosseum

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Title:	The Colosseum
Artist:	Weddige, Emil (Sandwich, Ontario, 1907- Ann Arbor, Michigan.)
Date:	1949
Medium:	Original Colour Lithograph
Note:	Emil Weddige studied art first at Eastern Michigan University and then in New York at the Art Students' League, under Emil Ganso. He completed his education at the University of Michigan in 1937 and spent the next thirty-eight years as a working professor there. He began exhibiting his art throughout the United States at this time, becoming best known for his original lithographs in which he would use a separate stone for each colour and hue.
	In 1949, Emil Weddige established a second studio along the Montparnasse in Paris. The Colosseum was one of the first original lithographs he created there. It most poignantly describes the poverty and devastation left by the recently ended Second World War. Weddige returned to live in America ten years later, accepting a fellowship at the prestigious Tamarind Lithograph Workshop in California.
	The lithographs of this famous artist are included in many collections, such as, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and the National Gallery, Washington, DC., the United Nations, the Chicago Art Institute and the Biblioteque Nationale, Paris. Both Georgetown University and the National Gallery, Washington, own an impression of The Colosseum. All Weddige's original lithographs were published in editions of 250 or less.
Edition:	Limited Edition of Two Hundred and Fifty impressions or less.
Size:	13 1/2 X 9 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Framed and Matted with 100% Archival Materials
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Condition:	Printed upon hand-made, laid paper bearing the 'BFK Rives' watermark and with full deckled margins as published in Paris in 1949. A superb full colour impression and in excellent condition throughout. Altogether, The Colosseum represents a superb, original example of the famous art of Emil Weddige.
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