International studio (21.1903/1904(1904))

manner of chromo-lithography, hfteen or more
stones were used to produce each picture. Not
one of the whole set is an auto-lithograph. It is
interesting to note that now, when these presses
are employed by a new society of artists for the
purpose of turning out original work, a good many
difhculties seem to be encountered. The craftsman
at the press who has mastered all the subtleties of
facsimile colour-printing, and who should be able
to do with the lithographic press all that it
is possible to do with it, Hnds it hard to
compete with the printer at Karlsruhe, who,
perhaps, had scarcely ever undertaken any art-
printing at all before he was bidden to etch and
print some of those drawings done directly upon
the stone by the artists themselves. However, the
Karlsruhe printer evidently has never done any
other than such work since, and therein lies his
advantage, for perhaps he knows fewer tricks than
the facsimile and trade printer.
The Society of Artists for Auto-lithography in
Berlin, who have printed their work at Troitzsch's
press, have so far produced over sixty lithographs,

most of them in colours.* If the majority do not
appeal to us quite as much as the work discussed
above, the cause lies, no doubt, to a great degree
in the circumstance just mentioned. As soon as
their printers have lost some of their extreme
adroitness, and gained a hner sense for the character
of the artist's work, the series will no doubt
prove as interesting as any other published in
Germany. Several of the latest issues betray as
much. I may mention Hofmann's ^4zzzzif Arg-
and 6hz z^g .Z?g<?g/4 ; Leistikow's misty, har-
monious AaA? zzgzzz* .Z?g7*/zzz; Ernest Otto's fine,
cold, white winter landscape, with the fox whose
prey has just escaped him; Skarbina's daringly
impressionistic ygwgAgFy <2^ A%*/% with its
multitude of glaring artificial lights; Kayser's
placid Sunday afternoon m the open country; and
Feldmann's Azzzzzzzzg?- A'zzgzzz'zz^*.
To this account of the most prominent colour-
lithographs which have been turned out in Germany
within the last few years, I should like to add a


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