Xanti (Alexander Schawinsky), 1904-1979 Lot n° 141

Artiste suisse, scénographe de théâtre, peintre et photographe, suiveur du Bauhaus. Tempera sur papier coloriée au crayon, attribuée à Xanti, "Deauville", 1932, 43,8x39 cm. Date au crayon dans le coin infèrieur droit. Publicité sur Deauville. Xanti était un étudiant et suiveur du Bauhaus. Provenance: Archive Hubert Hoffmann, et ensuite Egidio Marzona. Attributed to: XANTI Alexander Schawinsky. Deauville, 1932, 17.24x15.35 inches (43,8x39 cm), tempera and coloured pencil on paper, date in pencil on lower right corner. Advertising Deauville, a renown seaside resort in Normandy. Xanti was a Bauhaus student. From Hubert Hoffmann's archive, later Egidio Marzona collection. Hoffmann (Berlino 1904 - Graz 1999), also a Bauhaus student, was a dynamic promoter and collaborator of many exhibitions, from the celebrated "22 berliner bauhäusler stellen aus" (1950) on. This work, attributed to Xanti, was among the ones collected by Hoffmann to be displayed in several exhibitions