Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band IV (page 1/3)

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Man with hand in darkness

This is another small detail from José Benlliure y Gil’s huge oil painting Christmas Mass or Boys’ Choir, showing just the head and hand of the conductor. It’s not actually so dark in the original oil painting, but the engraver (credited to Max Narua von Weber) for the Moderne Kunst [...] [more...] [$]

Schoolwork

A girl wearing sensible lace-up shoes, a dress, hair in a bun, is seated at a wooden desk writing. There’s a bowl, perhaos biscuits or cookies, and a pile of papers. The [...] [more...] [$]

Christmas Choir

In a dark candle-lit church, a bespectacled man holding a baton is leading a choir of boys in white surplices. The boys are not actually looking at the conductor, and are perhaps drowned out by the bassoon and the tuba in their midst. The front boy (on our left) holds a thurible, or censer, suggesting that this is either a Roman Catholic or high church [...] [more...] [$]

Ornate Victorian Border

On the edge of Art Nouveau, this coloured border includes a cherub or putto (a naked boy with or without wings) playing the violin. Originally it surrounded a drawing of a young German woman. [more...] [$]

Auf dem Weihnachtsmarkt (At Christmasfest)

At the Christmas Festival Market.

The boy in the engraving sits holding a box, perhaps containing boxes of matches or small cakes; a candle (perhaps) is [more...] [$]