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Armin LandeckLandeck was born in Wisconsin, in
1905, but was educated in New York at Columbia University School of Architecture, and stayed most of his entire life in the New York area. After making his first etching, he traveled to Europe in 1928-1929 to gain more knowledge about the techniques of graphic arts. Returning to New York City, he joined forces with Martin Lewis and George Miller to start a school for printmakers at Miller's studio. The majority of Landeck's architectural scenes of the buildings, rooftops, and streets of New York give the viewer a feeling of quietness, loneliness, and mystery. One sees in each of his prints a relationship to the solitude seen in the works of Edward Hopper. This can be felt in Landeck's drypoint, "York Avenue, Sunday Morning." The shadows, gas tanks, bridge, and avenue leading up to the white exterior of the New York Hospital, project the city's isolation and emptiness.
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Armin Landeck
American (1905-1984)
York Avenue, Sunday Morning
7-3/4 x 12-7/8 in.
Drypoint, 1939, edition 100. Kraeft 78. Signed, dated, and
edition noted in pencil. Printed on wove paper with full margins.
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Armin Landeck
American (1905-1984)
East River Construction
8-1/4 x 12-7/8 in.
Engraving, 1941, edition 100. Kraeft 85. Signed in the plate, lower right, and in pencil. An excellent impression in good condition, printed on wove paper.
$800. |
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Armin Landeck
American (1905-1984)
Stairhall
11-7/8 x 14-1/2 in.
Drypoint and engraving, 1950, edition 100. Kraeft 104. Signed in pencil. The subject is the upstairs hall of the old Delmonico Hotel, Fifth Avenue and Fourteenth Street, NYC.
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Armin Landeck
American (1905-1984)
Manhattan Nocturne
7-7/8 x 11-7/8 in.
Drypoint, 1938, edition 100. Kraeft 70. Signed and dated in the plate, lower left; signed in pencil. Printed on laid paper with full margins. Presentation Print of the Society of American Etchers in 1938.
$1800. |
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Armin Landeck
American (1905-1984)
City Lane
10-1/8 x 13-1/2 in.
Drypoint, 1945, edition 100. Kraeft 96. Signed, dated, and edition noted in pencil. In excellent condition printed on wove paper with full margins, deckle edges all around. Illustrated in American Prize Prints of the 20th Century, Albert Reese, 1944, p.112. The artist notes the image depicts Minetta Lane in Greenwich Village, New York City.
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Armin Landeck
American (1905-1984)
11 West 11th Street
12-7/8 x 9-3/4 in.
Drypoint, 1939, edition 100. Kraeft 79. Signed, dated, and numbered in pencil. In excellent condition printed on wove paper with full margins. Other impressions from this plate were printed after 1939, by Mohammed Omar Khalil in the 1970's. His blindstamp is located in the lower right corner of the margin. A wonderful example of an architectural work by the artist.
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