Untitled David Schneuer Signed Original Painting 17.25" x 19.25"

David Schneuer was an artist born in Przemyśl, Poland in 1905 and grew up in Berlin, Germany. After graduating from the Munchner Kunstgewerbeschule, he moved to Paris, where he collaborated with many leading artists. Between 1927 and 1932 he lived and worked in Munich as a poster painter for the Kammerspiele in Schauspiellaus. In 1930 he began to design stage sets for the theater. He worked with one of the most renowned German set designers, Otto Reigbert through whom his artistic sensibility matured. While most artists for the theatre painted in either a constructivist typography or a more flowerly Art-Deco inspired manner, Schneuer’s posters formally reveal a unique balance between spontaneous design and more geometric lettering. He was later arrested in 1933 and interned at Dachau. Upon his release, Schneuer departed for Prague and then to Israel. Arriving in Tel Aviv, Schneuer worked as a graphic designer in various advertising agencies. He began to collaborate with the architect A