Art Jungle
Cart
AbstractBotanicalClassicsIllustrationsNature & LandscapesExclusiveVintage PostersJapanAll PrintsAll Categories

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita (1868–1944) was a Dutch graphic artist and the teacher of M. C. Escher, known for bold woodcuts and drawings. His animals here include birds of paradise, a cockatoo, parrots, a heron, an eagle owl, an orangutan, two gazelles and a snow hare, alongside amaryllis and calla studies and masked and seated figures.

Shape

Showing 1–24 of 24

Cockatoo

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

Two Gazelles

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

Orangutan

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

Sneeuwhaas

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

The Crow

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

Parrot

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

Eagle Owl

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

Ringuil

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

Goose

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

Heron

Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

FromNow €5.00Was €6.00

About Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita

Mesquita worked in Amsterdam and taught at a school of architecture and decorative arts in Haarlem, where M. C. Escher studied under him. His woodcuts build forms from firm parallel lines, white against black, and reduce animals and faces to clear, almost geometric shapes. In 1944 he was deported with his family; he and his wife were murdered at Auschwitz.

Birds make up the largest group: a lame marabou, a crow, a heron framed by architecture, an eagle owl and the owl titled “Ringuil”. “Sneeuwhaas” shows two snow hares between tree trunks. The figures range from a mother and child and a portrait with round spectacles to masked figures in patterned hoods. The woodcuts and drawings are reproduced as giclée prints with pigment inks, made to order in Berlin on matte 210 g/m² fine art paper or 400 g/m² cotton canvas, A4 to A0.