Studio: international art (15.1899)

Modem Lithography in Germany

drawing of a semi-nude girl, standing among trees. The greater part of Hans Unger's lithographic

It did not present any technical innovations nor work also consists of posters. The "Estey Organ"

any strikingly new ideas of conception, but it was design, printed in an edition of many thousands,

replete with a fine poetic feeling and was very well has been pretty well circulated in Europe and

received. This was followed by the landscape America. Among Unger's other posters we should

which we reproduce on page 270. It shows us a name one for the Nicode concerts, and one for the

corner in the principal public park of Dresden, and opening of the Central Theatre at Dresden. They

in it the artist has very felicitously reproduced a are generally in few colours, often only in two, and

star and moon light effect. To his credit it must disclose an amount of careful execution not often

be recorded that the swans were not put in of his observable in posters, where strong effects are

own free will, but to meet the demands of the print- mostly required. Unger's single-sheet lithographs

seller for "something pleasing." Both of these have not been many, the most noticeable being a

lithographs were printed, like most of Fischer's female head, which he has drawn upon stone several

work, with the help of an additional tone plate, times in slightly different positions, and which is

For the quarterly publication of the Dresden the same that appears on several of his posters.

Secession, Fischer has lithographed several land- The most recent and best version among these

scapes, one of which is especially interesting as it was printed from two stones, and it is the only one

attempts to treat its subject in a manner half-way of his lithographs that Unger himself is satisfied

between the broad surface technique of poster with.

designing and the often too detailed treatment of Fischer and Unger are members of the Dresden

crayon drawings. Excepting in his poster work Secession, and some of their lithographs have

Fischer has not yet attempted colour-lithography. appeared in the quarterly publications of that club.

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