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

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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...] [$]

Cherub with paintbrush

This winged naked little boy is intent on a canvas in front of him. He faces away from us and slightly to his left side (our left too); in his left hand is an artist’s palette and in his right a paintbrush. He has wings sprouting out [...] [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...] [$]

Ornate Victorian Border

On the edge of Art Nouveau, this coloured border includes a cherub or putto (a naked boy with or without wings) playing the violin. Originally it surrounded a drawing of a young German woman. [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...] [$]