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

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Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt (At Christmasfest)

At the Christmas Festival Market.

The boy in the engraving sits holding a box, perhaps containing boxes of matches or small cakes; a candle (perhaps) is [more...] [$]

Christmas Mass

Choirboys, an orchestra, a conductor who appears to be starting into space, an inuntersested congregation, some of whom are kneeling at at the door. It looks as if perhaps we see a minstrel’s gallery, or a side-chapel, as the main procession and [...] [more...] [$]

Wandering Minstrel

This youth has a lute strapped to his back and holds an open manuscript book in his left hand in his right, a quill pen. Perhaps he is writing a song, although he won’t get far without an inkwell. [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...] [$]

Choirboy singing from balcony pulpit

A beautiful boy chorister, or possibly a young lady by the costume and the long pointy fingers, is singing in a wooden pulpit or balcony high in the top-left corner of a page of sheet music (not shown). He or she has a red necklace and possibly a thurible. There are leaves that could be poinsetta but probably aren’t, a yellow songbird in a [more...] [$]