Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (page 2/3)

Portrait of Ludwig Knaus

This is a portrait or one interesting and important artist made by another interesting and important artist! [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...] [$]

Cherub Facing Right

This is only a baby cherub, with tiny wings not-yet grown, a little Cupid or Eros. he sits naked on the ground and gestures in front of him with his left hand. [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...] [$]

Christmas Mass

Choirboys, an orchestra, a conductor who appears to be starting into space, an unintersested 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...] [$]

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...] [$]

Man with hand in darkness

This is another small detail from José Benlliure y Gil’s huge oil painting Christmas Mass or Boys’ Choir, showing just the head and hand of the conductor. It’s not actually so dark in the original oil painting, but the engraver (credited to Max Narua von Weber) for the Moderne Kunst [...] [more...] [$]

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...] [$]

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...] [$]

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...] [$]

Banner, or Banderole

This banner, bubble, banderole, ribbon, cartouche, speech scroll, angel banner, phylactery, whatever, originally contained a page title. [$]