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Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern ArtModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band III (1889)

The front cover of Moderne Kunst, Volume 3, is very ornate and rather large. It bears, in the very middle, the text Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten (Modern Art in Master Woodcuts) in gold lette [...]

Keywords: book covers, colour, angels, cherubs, gold leaf, lettering

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Added: 2026-05-10

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Harvest-timeModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band III (1889)

A plainly-dressed girl holds a hay-fork in this black-and-white engraving of a painting, probably a watercolour. There is a frame featuring wild roses and asters around the picture; in places the flow [...]

Keywords: portraits, people, art, girls, harvest, women, peasants, borders, flowers, greyscale

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Border with flowersModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band III (1889)

A three-dimensional border (well, a picture of one) with flowers: wild roses and asters, i think)

The full picture including the portrait in the frame

Keywords: borders, full-page borders, floriated borders, 3d borders, frames, cartici, vines, greyscale

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Hexenschlaf (Witch’s Sleep, or, Burning a Witch)Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band III (1889)

The title of this painting, Hexenschlaf, refers to the idea that witches went into a lethargic state and became insensitive to pain during torture. Here we see a teenage girl convicted of “witchcraft” [...]

Keywords: torture, occult, hypnotism, witches, women, people, anger, grief, execution, punishment, greyscale

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Added: 2026-05-11

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