Mandrill and Mangabeys
1946
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1946
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Mandrill and Mangabeys is a 1946 by Hans Feibusch, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a mandrill and two mangabeys, two kinds of African monkeys. Hans Feibusch made it in 1946 using bright color blocks. The School Prints scheme sold cheap copies to schools so kids could see art every day. Feibusch fled Nazi Germany in 1933. He later painted murals, but here he used bold orange and pink to give the scene extra punch. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
The lithograph *Mandrill and Mangabeys* by Hans Feibusch, created in 1946, features three monkeys positioned against an orange rock, rendered in bold oranges, greens, and blues. The composition is framed by a wide brown and green border, designed to be pinned directly to classroom walls as part of the School Prints scheme. This initiative, launched in 1945 by Brenda Rawnsley, aimed to provide schoolchildren with affordable access to contemporary art during a period of post-war austerity. The series, which ran until 1949, commissioned established artists to produce lithographs that could be…
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Hans Nathan Feibusch (15 August 1898 – 18 July 1998) was a German painter and sculptor of Jewish heritage who lived and worked in Britain from 1933 until his death.
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