Original etching with copper plate, 1922. One of 5 artist’s proofs (another is in the Imperial War Museum).įront cover, showing detail of Dame in Grün (Lady in Green) by Otto Lange - see left column. Signed in pencil and dated, entitled and annotated artists proof. 1982): 623-629 Falk Tillman, ed., Hollsteins German Engravings, Etchings. An impression was exhibited at the Leicester Galleries in the YMCA War Artists exhibition. Unknown Italian, Florence, Pitti Palace, designed and built by Brunelleschi. The YMCA had commissioned the block, and an edition of 200 was made to be sold at the exhibition to raise money for the War Service Fund. Buckland Wright had joined the Home Guard in the year he engraved this subject. One or two small defects in the margins.Ī scene after a bombing raid on London. ![]() As issued in the portfolio Die Schaffenden 1919. ![]() Lange was a founder member of the avant garde Dresden Sezession in 1919. An Expressionist (Dresden had an association with Expressionism, going back to Die Brücke, 1905-1913). Lange was apprenticed to a painter-decorator before attending art school in Dresden. Susan Stewart journeys through this 18th-century engraver-architect’s paper. In this context I have taken the opportunity to include ‘old’ stock, sometimes at very advantageous prices. From the vast confines of his imaginary prisons to the billowy scenes that comprise his grotteschi, the early works of Giovanni Battista Piranesi wed the exacting details of first-hand observation with the farthest reaches of artistic imagination. Wood engravings probably predominate in the final section of the catalogue, but as I often only include a few items printed from wooden matrices, I have broadened the specific ‘wood engraving’ focus to include relief prints in general, from the 16th century onwards, as a celebration of Wood. 27 Martin Christadler, Giovanni Battista Piranesi und die Architekturmetapher der. ![]() ‘More’ represents the balance – the usual mix of old master prints, plus 19th & 20th century British and Continental etchings. 26 Huxley, Prisons, with the Carceri Etchings by G. The numbers in the somewhat enigmatic title of the catalogue do not refer to the quantity of prints offered, but rather to the three ‘themes’ on which there is a focus.Ģ020 is both the 300th anniversary year of the birth of Piranesi and the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Society of Wood Engraving (and incidentally but with reference to a single print only, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven).
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