Eugen Spiro (1874 - 1972) created a lithograph in 1950 of Leonard Hungerford and a copy of it was found in February 2025 on the German area of eBay. You can see the eBay offering pages here.
Taken from the website https://benuri.org/artists/371-eugen-spiro/biography/ last reviewed on 19 Mar 2025. Eugen Spiro was born into a Jewish family in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland) 18 April 1874. After studying art in Breslau and Munich, he relocated to Paris to study the French masters, becoming a Professor at the Académie Moderne and co-founding the Salon d’Automne. In 1914 Spiro returned to Berlin and was appointed Chairman of the progressive Berlin Secession and Professor of the Academy of Arts. Following Hitler’s appointment as German Chancellor in 1933 and the introduction of anti-Semitic legislation, three of his oils were included in the 'Exhibition of German-Jewish Artists' Work: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture' (5-15 June 1934) organised at the Parsons Gallery, London by German-Jewish emigre dealer, Carl Braunschweig (later Charles Brunswick), which included in total 221 artworks by 86 artists suffering persecution under the Nazi regime. In 1935 Spiro fled to Paris, co-founding, co-directing and chairing the Union des Artistes Libres; forced to flee again in 1940, travelling via Spain and Portugal to the USA, where he settled in New York and painted landscapes and portraits of his German-Jewish circle including Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann and Artur Schnabel. Eugen Spiro died in New York, United States on 26 September 1972.
From Wikipedia:
Eugene Spiro, born Eugen Spiro (April 18, 1874 in Breslau, Silesia – September 26, 1972 in New York City) was a German and American painter.
He was born to a Jewish family in Breslau.[1] In 1904 Spiro was briefly married to the famous actress Tilla Durieux, who later married the important art dealer Paul Cassirer. His younger sister was the painter Baladine Klossowska.[2][3] The French painter Balthus was his nephew.
References
- ^ History, Center for Jewish. "CJH Digital Collections". access.cjh.org.
- ^ Riley, Charles A. (3 April 2018). Aristocracy and the Modern Imagination. UPNE. p. 207. ISBN 9781584651512 – via Google Books.
- ^ Rewald, Sabine; Balthus (3 April 1984). Balthus. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 11. ISBN 9780810907386 – via Google Books.
Submitted by Richard Hungerford at 2:48 PM on March 19, 2025.