Adolf Dehn
Subtitle: midcentury Manhattan
By: Philip Eliasoph ; foreword by Henry Adams
Contributors: Adams, Henry, 1949- writer of foreword
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The Artist Book Foundation
Published: 2017
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780996200714
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; In art
Description: Adolf Dehn (1895-1968), an American lithographer and watercolorist, left his hometown in Minnesota after formal training at the Minneapolis Art Institute to study at the Art Students League in New York. In the early 1920s, he traveled to the cosmopolitan cities of Paris, Vienna, and Berlin, where he focused on lithography and printmaking, and soon found success as a magazine illustrator. As he toured Europe, Dehn quickly acclimated to the continental lifestyle and was adept at depicting its nuances and idiosyncrasies through his prolific lithographs and sketches. His critical and satirical renderings of the political movements, social conventions, and governmental policies in pre-World War II Europe gave the Midwestern artist ample material for his growing body of work.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.