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![[picture: Front Cover, Moderne Kunst Vol I]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/tn/00-front-cover-q75-361x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Moderne Kunst Vol I]")
Pictures from Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten (Modern Art in Master Woodcuts), Berlin, 1887.
I bought this enourmous book from Antikvariát Dlážděná in Prague in 2016. 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.
Note: Holzschnitten and not Holzshnitten as i had previously!
Title: Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band I
Editor: Bong, Richard
Published by: Richard Bong
City: Berlin
Date: 1887
Total items: 8
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: A Boyar Wedding Feast]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/wm/big/05-a-boyar-wedding-feast-q75-315x200.jpg "[picture: A Boyar Wedding Feast]")
![[picture: Lions in a Cage]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/wm/big/09-lions-q75-279x200.jpg "[picture: Lions in a Cage]")
![[picture: Lion Face, detail from Lions in a Cage]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/wm/big/09-lions-detail-face-q75-157x200.jpg "[picture: Lion Face, detail from Lions in a Cage]")
Lion Face, detail from Lions in a Cage
A detail from Lions in a Cage showing just the face of the lion. [$]
![[picture: III.--Morning in Amsterdam.]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/wm/big/03-hans-hermann-morning-in-amsterdam-q75-117x200.jpg "[picture: III.--Morning in Amsterdam.]")
![[picture: Mazeppa]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-01/wm/big/53-mazeppa-q75-200x116.jpg "[picture: Mazeppa]")
A naked young man (a piece of black cloth hiding his loins) is tied to the back of a horse which appears to be about to try to roll over onto its back, presumably in an effort to rid itself of its burden. In the background a large black bird, a raven with a pointy beak, is diving and the [...] [more...] [$]
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