The Life and Work of Michel Fingesten

Davide Stimilli, associate professor of German, Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, gave a presentation entitled the "Life and Work of Michel Fingesten" as part of CU Boulder's Week of Jewish Culture on March 7 in the Cofrin Auditorium, ATLAS 100.
Fingesten is noted for his Surrealist and Cubist influenced prints and paintings that capture the darkening mood of Europe as it slid into the brutality and devastation associated with Fascism, Nazism and World War II. Born in 1883 in Buczkowitz, Silesia (now part of the Czech Republic), Fingesten died in 1943 after the liberation of the camp where he had been interned since 1941.
Stimilli assisted with the CU Art Museum's purchase of a collection of Fingesten's works, some of which were on display in the CU Art Museum.

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