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Pictures from Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten (Modern Art in Master Woodcuts), Vol 15, Berlin, 1901.
I bought this enourmous book from Jan Placák- Gallery Ztichlá klika in Prague in 2019. It’s an “elephant folio” with pages measuring 410×290mm (roughly 11½×16 inches), including many engravings that fill the page or even double-page spreads and fold-outs.
Despite the title, the images are probably engraved on metal, because wood this size was hard to work with.
The date 1901 for this book is provisional; it could be a few years on either side. I took it from an auction catalogue.
I also have Volume I.
Title: Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV
Editor: Bong, Richard
Published by: Richard Bong
City: Berlin
Date: 1901
Total items: 13
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Vorfrühling - Early Spring]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/217-vorfruhling-q75-139x200.jpg "[picture: Vorfrühling - Early Spring]")
![[picture: Avenue of Sighs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/plate-069-ghost-in-the-forest-q75-278x200.jpg "[picture: Avenue of Sighs]")
![[picture: H Sperling: Horrified]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/003-artists-pallette-with-playful-dogs-and-cats-q85-134x200.jpg "[picture: H Sperling: Horrified]")
Heinrich Sperling was a German artist known for painting animals, especially dogs and horses, but also cats. His paintings were full of realism but also often humour. Here, in Entsetzt (Horrified), an oil-painter’s pallette-board had becomea playground, the thumb-hole becoming a window for cats to leap in and overturn a saucer of milk in the middle of the green [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: H Hendrich: Sea Fables]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/plate-079-sea-fables-q85-274x200.jpg "[picture: H Hendrich: Sea Fables]")
![[picture: A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/030-stage-costume-workshop-q75-128x200.jpg "[picture: A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling]")
A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling
A man with short back and sides hair, a suit jacket, and what looks like a green dress but is probably an apron, uses a small hammer with a chisel on a shield. In the background plate armour [...] [more...] [$]
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