Oedipus. In 1948, a book called The History of Magic was published under his name by Pantheon Books. After the war, his work began to be exhibited widely and acquired by museums throughout the United States and Europe. Seligmann taught at various colleges in New York City, particularly at Brooklyn College, from which he retired in 1958. The changing nature of the New York art world, as it embraced Abstract Expressionism, caused his work to be relegated to art history and perceived as passé. Due to illness, he gave up his Manhattan apartment and retired to his farm, where he died of an accidentally self-inflicted gunshot wound in January 1962. Shortly before his death in 1962, his widow, Arlette Seligmann, bequeathed the entire Seligmann estate to the Orange County Citizens Foundation, a private nonprofit corporation dedicated to the preservation of Orange County, New York. The foundation now serves as Seligmann's official estate and uses the Seligmann's farm as their office. The U.S. copyright representative for the Orange County Citizen's Foundation and the estate of Kurt Seligmann is the Artists Rights Society. At the request of the Orange County Citizens Foundation, artist, Jonathan Talbot, undertook the restoration of Kurt Seligmann's printing press which is located on the Seligmann property in Sugar Loaf. References Miller, Stephen Robeson, https://web.archive.org/web/20070421140209/http://www.occf-ny.org/seligmann.htm, Boston, Ma. 1995 Sawin, Martica, Surrealism in exile and the Beginning of the New York School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995 Seligmann, Kurt, The History of Magic, Pantheon Books, 1948 External links Kurt Seligmann Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. 1900 births 1962 deaths 20th-century Swiss painters Swiss male painters Ballet designers Brooklyn College faculty Firearm accident victims in the United States Deaths by firearm in New York (state) Accidental deaths in New York (state) 20th-century Swiss male artists Swiss emigrants to the United States