Modern etching and engraving

by Charles Holme

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 ...of the originals, while others are extremely good. His large plate after Titian's painting of the so-called Himmlische und Irdische Liebe (Profane and Divine Love) may be named among his most successful transmutations of colour into the mellow effects of the mezzotint plate. PROFESSOR UNGER is generally regarded as the senior etcher and tutor of a generation of gifted "juniors." In fact he has inspired quite a number of younger men to work with the engraver's tools, and it would appear, from the entirely independent way in which several of his pupils and friends have developed in different directions, that his tuition and advice have not exercised any restrictive influence upon the individuality of the talents placed under his care, but, on the contrary, have been helpful in allowing free scope for each talent to find its own way by following its peculiar inclinations. AMONG the younger generation, Mr. Alfred Cossmann, a pupil of Unger, has been developing his talent in a decidedly individual manner. He was born in 1870 at Graz in the Steirmark, and, after studying at the School of Arts and Crafts of the Oesterreichische Museum fur Kunst und Industrie in Vienna--principally in the ceramic department--he began etching under Prof. Unger's directions, and has now been working independently for the last three years, after a strict course of technical training in the various methods of reproductive engraving. IN the plate entitled A Tumult--An unlucky Democratthe artist has taken up a modern theme. There is suggestive force of a quite exceptional character in it, a hot breath of feverish agitation. There is, in fact, an abundance of imaginative expression, which, while intensely true, stops only just short of caricature. Work of this kind, thoroughly m...

26 pages, Paperback

First published December 9, 2009

About the author

Charles Holme was an English journalist and art critic, founding editor of The Studio from 1893. He published a series of books promoting peasant art in the first decades of the 20th century.

Author Charles Geoffrey Holme is his son.

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