Armin Landeck Timeline

Most/Least Production

• 1 year with 15 prints
• 14 years with 0 prints

Most Common Production Totals

• 13 years with 1 print
• 10 years with 3 prints
• 8 years with 2 prints
• 6 years with 6 prints

Fast Start

• Landeck created 85 etchings in the first 11 years of his career
• These 11 years (1927-1938) account for 53% of his total works
• It took Mr. Landeck another 46 years to create the remaining 76 pieces

Early & Later Periods

• 85% of all Landeck works were created between 1927 and 1958, for an average of 4.4 new prints per year.
• Only 25 prints (15% of the total) were created after 1958, for an average of 1 print per year for 26 years.

1905
Landeck was born on June 4, in Crandon, Wisconsin.

1927
Landeck graduates from Columbia University.

Landeck produces his first known etching “The Armenian” from which he makes important contacts at New York’s famed Kennedy Gallery.

1928
Landeck and his first wife travel abroad, covering most of Europe.

1929
The Landeck’s return to the U.S. but the recent stock market collapse hurts Mr. Landeck’s prospects as an architect.

1931
Landeck begins teaching at the Brearley School in New York City

1934
Landeck and fellow artist Martin Lewis started the School for Printmakers, where they taught printmaking.

This same year, Landeck produces four of his most iconic prints in a sequence:

• Cat’s Paw (K.44)
• Pop’s Tavern (K.45)
• Manhattan Canyon (K.46)
• Manhattan Vista (K.47)

1935
The school for Printmakers closes due to economic realities of the Depression.

1938
Landeck wins the Alice McFadden Eyre Medal, Penn Academy of Fine Arts

1940
Landeck met and went on to work with Stanley William Hayter at Atelier 17. This experience led to Landeck’s first engravings.

1953
Landeck receives a Guggenheim Fellowship. Allowing him to travel across Europe once again. At least three works are produced from this period, Chartres, Paris Subway, Rome’s
Colosseum, all published in 1956.

1958
Landeck retires his teaching position at Brearley School, living full time at his Connecticut farm.

1984
Landeck dies on December 1, after experiencing heart discomfort in the days before.