Bidspirit auction | Rafaello Busoni, Artist. Die 10

Rafaello Busoni, Artist. Die 10 Plagen /The 10 Plagues, ex. 122/200, Lithographs signed by artist in pencil, 1930’s, German Hebrew and English, Rare! - Rafaello Busoni Artist. Die 10 Plagen /The 10 Plagues, ex. 122/200, Lithographs signed by artist in pencil, 1930’s, German Hebrew and English, Rare! Berlin, ed. Haus Striem, 1930’s., 2- title page and page with text, 10 plates. Printed in two hundred copies, this is copy # 122. Ten plates with b/w lithographs portraying the 10 plagues inflicted on the Egyptians by G-d. Each lithograph is signed in pencil by the artist Rafaello Busoni Original Folder with window, 25.5 x 20 cm. Condition: Foxing stains to all plates, some plates foxed more some less; brown paper to title page and rear side of one plate. Rafaello Busoni (born 1 February 1900 in Berlin, and Died March 1962 in New York) was a graphic artist, illustrator, painter and illustrator of theater and opera literature, children's books, and author of several books. His parents were the Italian musician and composer Ferruccio Busoni and Gerda Sjöstrand, the daughter of a Swedish sculptor. Busoni was self-taught in his artistic career. He received brief instruction from the Swiss painter Eduard Stiefel (life drawing) and from the Hungarian etcher Ricardo Hadel in etching techniques and printing. The first public exhibition of Busoni's works took place in the Zurich gallery Tanner in 1917. A five-year stay in Switzerland can be seen as the basis of his artistic career. After his art training in Switzerland, he worked in Paris and Berlin, where he gained his reputation as an illustrator. Busoni's first marriage was to the Japanese Hide; their daughter Kiki was born in 1927. Hide died of tuberculosis in 1930 after treatment in Switzerland had failed. Busoni's second marriage was to Hannah, daughter of the lawyer Alfred Apfel, who had defended Carl von Ossietzky in the Weltbühne trial. Hannah, a long-time friend of the family, had been Hide's piano student. In January 1935, the couple emigrated to Madeira with Kiki and lived there until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in 1936. Then they returned to Berlin. In November 1938, their son Mario was born. As they could not stay in Germany because of Hannah's Jewish origins, Busoni decided to move with his family to Sweden, his mother's homeland, in the belief that they would ultimately be safe there. However, after only six months, the Busonis were forced to leave again. In October 1939, they took a ship from Norway to New York. Here Busoni continued his life as a painter and illustrator until his death in 1962.[1] Busoni illustrated numerous classic works of youth and adventure literature such as Robinson Crusoe, Tom Sawyer, David Copperfield, Robin Hood.