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Pictures from Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten (Modern Art in Master Woodcuts), Vol 15, Berlin, 1901.
I bought this enourmous book from Jan Placák- Gallery Ztichlá klika in Prague in 2019. 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 and fold-outs.
Despite the title, the images are probably engraved on metal, because wood this size was hard to work with.
The date 1901 for this book is provisional; it could be a few years on either side. I took it from an auction catalogue.
I also have Volume I.
Title: Moderne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band XV
Editor: Bong, Richard
Published by: Richard Bong
City: Berlin
Date: 1901
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/030-stage-costume-workshop-q75-128x200.jpg "[picture: A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling]")
A Workshop for Stafe Costumes: The Chiseling
A man with short back and sides hair, a suit jacket, and what looks like a green dress but is probably an apron, uses a small hammer with a chisel on a shield. In the background plate armour [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: A Christmas-Box From China]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/080-christmas-gifts-from-china-q75-143x200.jpg "[picture: A Christmas-Box From China]")
A family in Germany have received a box of Christmas gifts from China in this coloured engraving from 1901. The mother is wearing (i think) a traditional embroidered xiuhe dress or shirt/blouse or jacket; a boy clutches maybe a vase; a girl with long red hair cradles a doll; the father, in a suit, holds a tiny figure up close to his eye. Behind is a [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Avenue of Sighs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/plate-069-ghost-in-the-forest-q75-278x200.jpg "[picture: Avenue of Sighs]")
![[picture: Angel of the New year]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/086-angel-q75-143x200.jpg "[picture: Angel of the New year]")
A winged angel, a woman, floats over a snow-covered village, a church and houses and farms visible in the background. She carries a severed evergreen tree over one shoulder and a shining lantern in her left hand, thrust forward to light her way. She wears a long flowing dress and is [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Border with Green Man and Cherubs]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ModerneKunst-15/wm/big/133-cherub-border-q75-290x200.jpg "[picture: Border with Green Man and Cherubs]")
Border with Green Man and Cherubs
This full-page (landscape) border features two winged cherubs (or putti), one standing on either side, facing three-quarters away from us, the right-hand one holding binoculars up to his eyes. They are standing on an arrangment of vines [...] [more...] [$]
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