Karoly Kernstok

Flowering Desert

Karoly Kernstok's original etching and drypoint engraving"Flowering Desert" was created in 1932. It is both an accomplished and impressive work of original printmaking by this influential Hungarian artist. This original impression of "Flowering Desert" is printed upon thick wove paper and with large, full margins as published in Hungary on the above date. It is signed and dated in the plate and pencil signed by Karoly Kernstok under the plate-mark.

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Title:	Flowering Desert
Artist:	Kernstok, Karoly (Budapest, Hungary, 1873 - 1940)
Date:	1932
Medium:	Original Etching and Drypoint Engraving
Note:	Karoly Kernstok (Kernstock): One of Hungary's most influential early twentieth century artists, Karoly Kernstok first studied painting techniques at the Budapest School of Design. He then went to Munich in 1892 to study under Simon Hollosy. Karoly Kernstok concluded his formal education at the Academie Julian, Paris, from 1893 to 1895 and at Benczur's School, Budapest, from 1896 to 1899. Kernstok's first major exhibitions took place in Budapest in 1897. Three years later one his paintings was awarded a bronze medal at the Universal Exposition in the United States.
	Karoly Kernstok's initial works were figure studies and genre depictions, largely in the vein of Hungarian turn-of-the-century social realist painting. By 1906, however, his art began exploring stylized elements and postimpressionist techniques, and thus he became a leading exponent of modernism. In 1910, Karoly Kernstok was a founding member of the Nyolcak (Group of Eight) painters. Briefly this important movement advocated expressionism and an emphasis upon the body within space. It drew upon such divergent forms as Art Nouveau, Fauvism and native Hungarian art forms. The Nyolcak was also somewhat political and, through the art of its participants, attempted to move Habsburg Hungary toward a democratic republic. Karoly Kernstok's 1910 painting, Riders on the Shore, became a major catalyst for the art of Nyolcak (Group of Eight). During this period, Karoly Kernstok designed and painted major frescoes and glass windows for the Schiffer-villa (1911) and the County Hall, Debrecen.
	Karoly Kernstok moved to Berlin in 1919. He both lived and exhibited in that city until his 1926 return to Hungary. For the following fourteen years the artist continued to paint and etch major works of art, often exploring and incorporating elements of ancient Etruscan art. As well, Karoly Kernstok established an art school in the Nyergesujfalu region of Hungary. Flowing Desert, a large and impressive etching, may have been created by the artist at this school.
	Today the art of Karoly Kernstok is found in most major Hungarian collections, including the Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest.
Size:	15 1/2 X 12 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Buy Now	Price: $395.00 US
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Condition:	Printed upon thick wove paper and with large, full margins as published in Hungary in 1932. Signed and dated in the plate and pencil signed by the artist under the plate-mark. Containing faint staining in the outer margins (well removed from the actual etching) else a finely printed impression and in very good condition throughout. Flowering Desert represents a superb, original example of the important Hungarian art of Karoly Kernstok (Kernstock).
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