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![[picture: Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/tn/000-front-cover-moderne-kunst-band-3-q75-351x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art]")
Pictures from Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten (Modern Art in Master Woodcuts), Berlin, c. 1889.
It’s an “elephant folio” with pages measuring 410×290mm (roughly 11½×16 inches), including many engravings that fill the page or even double-page spreads.
Despite the title, the images are probably engraved on metal, because wood this size was hard to work with.
The date 1890 for this item is taken from an article it contains about a book then just published, and which is dated 1890.
Title: Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band III
Editor: Bong, Richard
Published by: Richard Bong
City: Berlin
Date: 1890
Total items: 5
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Hexenschlaf (Witch’s Sleep, or, Burning a Witch)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/wm/big/plate-067-burn-the-witch-q75-136x200.jpg "[picture: Hexenschlaf (Witch’s Sleep, or, Burning a Witch)]")
Hexenschlaf (Witch’s Sleep, or, Burning a Witch)
The title of this painting, Hexenschlaf, refers to the idea that witches went into a lethargic state and became insensitive to pain during torture. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Border with flowers]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/wm/big/plate-057-detail-border-with-flowers-q75-145x200.jpg "[picture: Border with flowers]")
![[picture: Harvest-time]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/wm/big/plate-057-farm-girl-in-frame-q75-145x200.jpg "[picture: Harvest-time]")
![[picture: Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moon]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/wm/big/p041-letter-w-with-witch-q75-149x200.jpg "[picture: Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moon]")
Initial Letter W With Demon and Woman and Crescent Moon
A decorative initial, vignetted, inhabited: a drop cap. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-03/wm/big/000-front-cover-moderne-kunst-band-3-q75-140x200.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art]")
Front Cover, Volume Three of Modern Art
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 letters with ornate initials. But above are two female angels with wings and trumpets resting on a pediment styled after classical architecture and with a shield between them (Germany?) and, beneath, two cherubs, winged naked boys, one with a scroll and one with a canvas, the whole contained in an ornate border of scrollwork and gold leaf with a man’s head at the top, perhaps the publisher (Richard Bong).
I fell in love with these books in Prague one day: a bookseller had a stack of cardboard boxes just inside the door and I glimpsed a cover like this and asked. They had just arrived and were not priced, but I bought as many as I could afford right there and then, in great [more...] [$]
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