Faiga Ostrower - Framed lithograph - 1980 - Sold

Framed lithograph by Faiga Ostrower. Year: 1980. Circulation: 64/100. Dimensions including frame: H83 x W56cm. Dimensions: H60 x W35cm. The work is signed and dated by the artist, bottom right. The authenticity of the work offered is fully guaranteed. A certificate of authenticity can be emailed upon request.


Frames: Damage to frames is not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be stated. Reflection may be visible in photos of framed works.

Send: When purchased, the work can be picked up in s-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for it collection, upon payment in advance, is very generous, in other words the buyer can have the work done for weeks or even collect it months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be shipped with a courier. For the Netherlands the costs are 32.50 euros. For Belgium the costs are 57.50 euros. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.


Fayga Ostrower was born as Fayga Perla Krakowski to a Jewish family in Łódź. In 1921 the family moved to Elberfeld and Barmen in Germany, where Ostrower attended primary and secondary schools. In the early 1930s, after difficulties with the German authorities, the family took refuge in Belgium and emigrated to Brazil in 1934, where they settled in Nilópolis. Ostrower began working as a secretary while studying art at the Fine Arts Association, and in 1946 she took design classes at the Brazilian Association of Fine and Graphic Arts of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, where she studied metal and wood engraving and art history with teachers Axel Leskoschek , Tomás Santa Rosa, Carlos Oswald and Anna Levy. In 1955 she spent a year in New York on a Fulbright Scholarship, engraving under the tutelage of Stanley Hayter.

Ostrower exhibited and won prizes at the international art biennials of São Paulo (1951 to 1967), Venice (1958 and 1962) and Mexico (1960).

In 2002, the Fayga Ostrower Institute was founded in Rio de Janeiro in memory of Ostrower, to house her works and documents and to provide for creative, visual arts and interdisciplinary study.

In 1941 Ostrower married the Marxist activist Heinz Ostrower, both were naturalized in 1951. They had a son Carl Robert (b. 1949), and daughter Anna Leonor (b. 1952).

Education
Between 1954 and 1970 Ostrower taught composition and critical analysis at the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro. In the 1960s she taught at the Slade School of Fine Art in London and in 1964 at Spelman College in Atlanta. She subsequently held positions within postdoctoral programs at several Brazilian universities. She subsequently developed art courses for workers and community centers and gave lectures at various cultural institutions
The work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The collection period, if paid in advance, is very long, in other words the buyer can collect the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the above-mentioned cities or the beach. The work can also be shipped. Our shipping days are Tuesday and Thursday.


Shipping/collection:
When purchased, the work can be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague
(Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for it
collection, upon payment in advance, is very generous, in other words the buyer can have the work done for weeks or even
collect it months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the
above-mentioned cities or the beach.