Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (page 1/3)

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On The Beach

She: sits wears boots, a long pleated dress, long gloves almost to the elbows, a bodice or corset and blouse, and a bonnet with a cheese-making factory on top. She carries a [...] [more...] [$]

Spring Song, Frühlingslied

A young man, rather scantily clad in an animal skin draped over one shoulder and over his crotch, plays the flute to a young woman lying on animal skins or fabric on the grass and gazing up at the boy. Behind the youth, a tree is in flower.

This engraving by F. Feldweg is based on a painting by the German artist Harry Jochmus (1855 – 1915). There appear to be several versions of the oil painting, with the boy being naked or partly clothed, and with water in the background or not, and the grazing animals in the distant in different positions.

Small print beneath the engraving says, Mit genehmigung der photographischen gesellschaft in Berlin, which is, With permission of the Photographic Society in Berlin, suggesting that the engraving was made from a photograph of the original artowrk.

In digitising the piece, i have assumed that the colours have faded somewhat and tried to correct for it; the sea in [more...] [$]

Schoolwork

A girl wearing sensible lace-up shoes, a dress, hair in a bun, is seated at a wooden desk writing. There’s a bowl, perhaos biscuits or cookies, and a pile of papers. The [...] [more...] [$]

Christmas Choir

In a dark candle-lit church, a bespectacled man holding a baton is leading a choir of boys in white surplices. The boys are not actually looking at the conductor, and are perhaps drowned out by the bassoon and the tuba in their midst. The front boy (on our left) holds a thurible, or censer, suggesting that this is either a Roman Catholic or high church [...] [more...] [$]

Cherub playing a grand piano

Strictly speaking i think he’s a putto, as cherubs have wings and putti are just plump little naked children, usually boys, although putti are sometimes depicted with wings. In this picture a red-haired putto or cherub is sitting on the piano stool, [...] [more...] [$]