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Pictures from Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten (Modern Art in Master Woodcuts), Vol 15, Berlin, 1901.
I bought this enourmous book from Jan Placák- Gallery Ztichlá klika in Prague in 2019. 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.
The date 1901 for this book is provisional; it could be a few years on either side. I took it from an auction catalogue.
I also have Volume I.
Title: Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV
Editor: Bong, Richard
Published by: Richard Bong
City: Berlin
Date: 1901
Total items: 11
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: H Hendrich: Sea Fables]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/plate-079-sea-fables-q85-274x200.jpg "[picture: H Hendrich: Sea Fables]")
![[picture: H Sperling: Horrified]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/003-artists-pallette-with-playful-dogs-and-cats-q85-134x200.jpg "[picture: H Sperling: Horrified]")
Heinrich Sperling was a German artist known for painting animals, especially dogs and horses, but also cats. His paintings were full of realism but also often humour. Here, in Entsetzt (Horrified), an oil-painter’s pallette-board had becomea playground, the thumb-hole becoming a window for cats to leap in and overturn a saucer of milk in the middle of the green [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: New Year's Eve Punch]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/108-erich-eltze-Sylvesterbowle-q75-150x200.jpg "[picture: New Year's Eve Punch]")
![[picture: Serpentin-Tanzerin [the serpentine dancer]]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/133-tangerine-angel-q67-278x200.jpg "[picture: Serpentin-Tanzerin [the serpentine dancer]]")
Serpentin-Tanzerin [the serpentine dancer]
The German word tänzerin means dancer, but primarily a female one. In this case the title is probably a reference to the film Die Serpentintänzerin which was produced in 1895; the film lasted for only six seconds and showed a barefoot dancer whirling about with a shawl or scarf lifting up over her head as she turned. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Angel of the New year]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/086-angel-q75-143x200.jpg "[picture: Angel of the New year]")
A winged angel, a woman, floats over a snow-covered village, a church and houses and farms visible in the background. She carries a severed evergreen tree over one shoulder and a shining lantern in her left hand, thrust forward to light her way. She wears a long flowing dress and is [...] [more...] [$]
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