DOI Heft:
No. 104 (November, 1901)
DOI Artikel:Uzanne, Octave: Paul Kersten's decorative leather work
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19874#0128
Paul Kersten s Leather Work
He should have no cause to ■SHBBKfifiH£HS^^ °f contemPorary binders wel1
regret this act of independence known in Paris and in London,
and legitimate pride, for it is ||§j(|j BMM^^^^wMHK At anY rate> he was absolutely
to be hoped German biblio- WmISBMllsmBw^l M honest in his conviction,
philes will all go to him; and WM Wl&f9MMmS*f&M■ Having dealt with the tech-
doubtless France and England illH ^^j^^Mfev^^^ H n'Cal S'de °f thU question'
will demand from him speci- ; Mr. Kersten, in the article
mens of his masterly produc-
tions. He is now on the
high-road to success, and it is
only right that attention should
be drawn to his curious and
restrained method of decorat-
ing morocco.
Mr. Paul Kersten is not only
a most skilful practitioner of
his art, but a subtle theorician „,, „ „__._._„
' . bookbinding by p. kersten
thereon — one might say an
apostle. I remember to have
read a few years ago in some German magazine a already men-
certain "Causerie d'un specialiste," by Mr. Kersten, tioned, treat-
which showed that he possessed a very clear and ed of its his-
very acute sense of his subject. After having toricalaspect
plainly and concisely demonstrated the proper from the fif-
method of making an artistic binding, which should teenth cen-
combine the double result of bookbinding by p. kersten
technical beauty and aesthetic
harmony, Mr. Kersten endea- BpBBjHH tuT> revealing abundant
voured to show that German BMi'^^tPB ' ' • erudition and a remark-
binding was in no way inferior, ffPffjjgPB . able knowledge of all his
either decoratively or as sheer Ei^9l£&9§B predecessors in all the
workmanship, to French bind- H.^^^^II^B ■ countries of Europe. He
traced back the intro-
duction of art binding
into Germany—that is
to say, bindings with
gilding on leather—to
the middle of the six-
teenth century only.
According to him, its
origin was Venetian and
the introducers were the
Frankfort libraires, who
at each annual fair sold
bookbinding by p. kersten a great number of books
printed in Venice, partly
ing. I cannot by learned German monks such as Mutianus
go so far as to Rufus, of the monastery of Georgenthal, who sent
say his demon- to their native country many admirable books
stration was wholly bound. In any case, the cradle of German,
conclusive; he or, to be more exact, of Saxon binding, was the
seemed to University of Wittenberg, founded in 1502 by the
ignore much Elector Frederic the Good.
bookbinding by p. kersten of tne work Having awarded full praise to the heavy leathern
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He should have no cause to ■SHBBKfifiH£HS^^ °f contemPorary binders wel1
regret this act of independence known in Paris and in London,
and legitimate pride, for it is ||§j(|j BMM^^^^wMHK At anY rate> he was absolutely
to be hoped German biblio- WmISBMllsmBw^l M honest in his conviction,
philes will all go to him; and WM Wl&f9MMmS*f&M■ Having dealt with the tech-
doubtless France and England illH ^^j^^Mfev^^^ H n'Cal S'de °f thU question'
will demand from him speci- ; Mr. Kersten, in the article
mens of his masterly produc-
tions. He is now on the
high-road to success, and it is
only right that attention should
be drawn to his curious and
restrained method of decorat-
ing morocco.
Mr. Paul Kersten is not only
a most skilful practitioner of
his art, but a subtle theorician „,, „ „__._._„
' . bookbinding by p. kersten
thereon — one might say an
apostle. I remember to have
read a few years ago in some German magazine a already men-
certain "Causerie d'un specialiste," by Mr. Kersten, tioned, treat-
which showed that he possessed a very clear and ed of its his-
very acute sense of his subject. After having toricalaspect
plainly and concisely demonstrated the proper from the fif-
method of making an artistic binding, which should teenth cen-
combine the double result of bookbinding by p. kersten
technical beauty and aesthetic
harmony, Mr. Kersten endea- BpBBjHH tuT> revealing abundant
voured to show that German BMi'^^tPB ' ' • erudition and a remark-
binding was in no way inferior, ffPffjjgPB . able knowledge of all his
either decoratively or as sheer Ei^9l£&9§B predecessors in all the
workmanship, to French bind- H.^^^^II^B ■ countries of Europe. He
traced back the intro-
duction of art binding
into Germany—that is
to say, bindings with
gilding on leather—to
the middle of the six-
teenth century only.
According to him, its
origin was Venetian and
the introducers were the
Frankfort libraires, who
at each annual fair sold
bookbinding by p. kersten a great number of books
printed in Venice, partly
ing. I cannot by learned German monks such as Mutianus
go so far as to Rufus, of the monastery of Georgenthal, who sent
say his demon- to their native country many admirable books
stration was wholly bound. In any case, the cradle of German,
conclusive; he or, to be more exact, of Saxon binding, was the
seemed to University of Wittenberg, founded in 1502 by the
ignore much Elector Frederic the Good.
bookbinding by p. kersten of tne work Having awarded full praise to the heavy leathern
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