DOI Heft:
No. 130 (January, 1904)
DOI Artikel:Singer, Hans Wolfgang: Recent German lithographs in colours
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19880#0323
German Coloured Lithographs
specimens ; and his wife, Jenny Fikentscher,
besides doing more studies of flowers, has
drawn an interesting Village Street shown in
the quiet of the small hours of the morning, with
the spectral light of a full summer moon. Biese,
Daur and others, have likewise not remained
idle; moreover, there are a number of excellent new
artists, such as W. Oertel and Elise Peppmiiller,
who lithograph landscapes in the spirit of Thoma,
or Marie Ortlieb, a stylist, and P. von Ravenstein, a
realist upon the same field of landscape art.
It is now a year and a half ago that about two
hundred of the men in Germany most fitted for that
purpose met for two days at Dresden, in order
to discuss what means should be adopted to
improve the public taste in art, and to increase the
stock of really good art which could be placed in
the hands of the public. The chief practical
result of their endeavours was to make possible, by
their moral support, the enterprise of the Leipsic
publishing houses of Teubner and Voigtlaender.
These two firms commenced a series of large
lithographs in colours, intended to decorate
school rooms, and the walls of private houses.
The moment for the undertaking was happily-
chosen, as just then almost every well-known
artist in the country was essaying lithography.
Two amongst the earliest issues, Walther Georgy's
Ploughma?i and Adolf Luntz's Swabian Town,
will be familiar to the readers of The Studio,
in the columns of which they have been
reproduced. The series has not deteriorated
since the days of its commencement, and among
the many similar undertakings (including those of
other nations besides Germany) it is still the only
one that really offers what its title, " Art for the
Schools " and for the people, promises. All the
others publish little more than mere illustrations
of some subject-matter, and nine-tenths disseminate
reproductions, but not works of art. In this series
every sheet published is an auto-lithograph, designed
by some one of the best-known modern artists, and
every stone requisite to the production of the
picture is executed by this artist himself. Of course
all the work is not equally fine. Among the best,
besides the two already mentioned, I may name
the sombre Stormy Night on the Baltic Shore, by
J. V. Cissarz; Castle Tirol, near Meran, by
' BERNAU : BLACK FOREST "
306
BY MARIE LA ROC HE
specimens ; and his wife, Jenny Fikentscher,
besides doing more studies of flowers, has
drawn an interesting Village Street shown in
the quiet of the small hours of the morning, with
the spectral light of a full summer moon. Biese,
Daur and others, have likewise not remained
idle; moreover, there are a number of excellent new
artists, such as W. Oertel and Elise Peppmiiller,
who lithograph landscapes in the spirit of Thoma,
or Marie Ortlieb, a stylist, and P. von Ravenstein, a
realist upon the same field of landscape art.
It is now a year and a half ago that about two
hundred of the men in Germany most fitted for that
purpose met for two days at Dresden, in order
to discuss what means should be adopted to
improve the public taste in art, and to increase the
stock of really good art which could be placed in
the hands of the public. The chief practical
result of their endeavours was to make possible, by
their moral support, the enterprise of the Leipsic
publishing houses of Teubner and Voigtlaender.
These two firms commenced a series of large
lithographs in colours, intended to decorate
school rooms, and the walls of private houses.
The moment for the undertaking was happily-
chosen, as just then almost every well-known
artist in the country was essaying lithography.
Two amongst the earliest issues, Walther Georgy's
Ploughma?i and Adolf Luntz's Swabian Town,
will be familiar to the readers of The Studio,
in the columns of which they have been
reproduced. The series has not deteriorated
since the days of its commencement, and among
the many similar undertakings (including those of
other nations besides Germany) it is still the only
one that really offers what its title, " Art for the
Schools " and for the people, promises. All the
others publish little more than mere illustrations
of some subject-matter, and nine-tenths disseminate
reproductions, but not works of art. In this series
every sheet published is an auto-lithograph, designed
by some one of the best-known modern artists, and
every stone requisite to the production of the
picture is executed by this artist himself. Of course
all the work is not equally fine. Among the best,
besides the two already mentioned, I may name
the sombre Stormy Night on the Baltic Shore, by
J. V. Cissarz; Castle Tirol, near Meran, by
' BERNAU : BLACK FOREST "
306
BY MARIE LA ROC HE