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Excerpt from Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler: Technische Erklärungen, Ratschläge für das Sammeln und das AufbewahrenIm Jahre 1916 richtete sich das Buch in erster Linie an die Kreise, die öffentliche Sammlungen zu verwalten haben, Ratschläge und Hinweise für Privatsamrnler standen ganz in zweiter Linie. Das zweite Mal ist ein Buch ausschließlich für den Privatsammler entstanden. Für ihn kann man die \winke, die sich auf die Ver wahrung und Ver...

Excerpt from Handbuch für Kupferstichsammler: Technische Erklärungen, Ratschläge für das Sammeln und das AufbewahrenIm Jahre 1916 richtete sich das Buch in erster Linie an die Kreise, die öffentliche Sammlungen zu verwalten haben, Ratschläge und Hinweise für Privatsamrnler standen ganz in zweiter Linie. Das zweite Mal ist ein Buch ausschließlich für den Privatsammler entstanden. Für ihn kann man die \winke, die sich auf die Ver wahrung und Ver...

Excerpt from Etching, Engraving and the Other Methods of Printing PicturesThe object of this book is to try to help the reader to attain a double end. It will tell him all about the different methods of engraving, etc., noting their invention, ex plaining their process, and enabling him hereafter to recognise at sight whatever manner of print he may have placed before him. Few people will guess how much this knowledge, that seems rather exoter...

Excerpt from Dresden 1: The Royal Picture GalleryMy friend, Martin W. Sampson, sometime Professor of English in Indiana University, has had the uncommon goodness to take off my hands the task of translating the book from the original German. Few will appreciate the greatness of the obligation he has put me under, for to translate a compact art booklet of this kind is far more difficult than people think.About the PublisherForgotten Books publi...

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Prof. Hans W. Stranger wrote and commented widely on art, German otherwise. His Stories of the German Artists, including Albrecht Durer, the two Holbeins, and Anton Graff.

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Considered one of the founding fathers of abstract art, Whistler is also seen as the initiator of English Impressionism. Adhering to the harmony of shapes and colours, he created his canvases like a musician composes a melody. Whistler lived by the maxim that art is the science of beauty and sought a formula capable of translating the essence of the world.

Excerpt from Dresden 1: The Royal Picture Gallery My friend, Martin W. Sampson, sometime Professor of English in Indiana University, has had the uncommon goodness to take off my hands the task of translating the book from the original German. Few will appreciate the greatness of the obligation he has put me under, for to translate a compact art booklet of this kind is far more difficult than people think. About the Publisher Forgotten Books...

Originally published in 1897. PREFACE: The nature of this book is very simple and practical. It is intended as a guide to the enjoyment of an art which has not yet succeeded in engaging public interest to the extent that it deserves. With the exception, perhaps, of the theoretical chapter, in which an attempt has been made to proceed beyond the explanation of the process to the elucidation of the principle, all subjects treated are matters of ...