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  • Gustave Doré in the London Tradition – Reportage III: Third Men

    Not translated: 5) Die dritten Männer In Dorés Illustrationswerk wurde die gnostische Befindlichkeit der Entfremdung und Dislokalität erstmals als eine grundlegende Erfahrung des urbanen Lebens ins Bild gesetzt. Und die grafischen Mittel, die er dabei zum Einsatz brachte, waren ungleich komplexer und subtiler als die der Künstler des Expressionismus und Futurismus, die ihm in dieser […]

  • John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage II: Republican Palaces

    Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. -3)  Republican Palaces -4)  Digression I: Blake’s Cottage   3) Republican Palaces Remarks on Rural Scenery is Smith’s shortest publication. It consists of a sequence of twenty etchings that were all made “after nature” and depict the most various kinds of rural housings for […]

  • Slums in the outskirts of London, 1797

    “Remarks on Rural Scenery” was created by John Thomas Smith with the support of his student John Constable. It consists of a sequence of twenty etchings that were all made “after nature” and depict the most various kinds of rural housings for the poor on the periphery of the exploding metropolis of London. The places […]

  • John Thomas Smith and the Invention of Investigative Social Reportage I: Real Views

    Abriged version. For footnotes please see the more detailed German version. – 1) Introduction – 2) Real views 1) Introduction The beginnings of investigative social reportage are usually sought in the Victorian age, in the 1840s, the founding period of illustrated magazines dedicated to daily politics. But graphic social journalism had already been formulated decades […]

  • Travelling through Hotel Turgot by cuts. The Art of Wendelien Schönfeld

    One rainy afternoon at a friend’s house in Amsterdam I saw a book with a series of colour woodcuts. In the woodcuts the rooms, garden and façades of a former private hôtel in Paris were depicted. In the first print I saw the front door, in the second I entered the building. I saw a […]

  • Henri Durand-Brager, Special artist of Bonapartism

    “The eyes of the world are upon us! … Misfortune has its heroism and its fame.” (Napoleon Bonaparte, St. Helena, Nov. 1815) “The Napoleonic idea broke forth from St. Helena like the moral doctrine of the Gospel, which had risen, certain of victory, from the agonies of the Calvary.” (Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, L´Idée Napoléonienne, 1840)  In […]

  • The Translation of the Arch-Imperator , (H. Durand-Brager: Sainte-Hélène, 1844 / C. N. Lemercier: Translation du corps de Napoleon, ca.1842)

    Special Artist Henri Durand-Brager had made a name for himself with an opulent documentation of the return of the remains of Napoleon I from foreign, British occupied soil to his homeland. Brager´s expedition report Sainte-Hélène was published in an impressive folio format in 1844. What is remarkable, is that the cycle completely disregards the actual […]

  • Journal de L’expédition des Portes De Fer (1839 – 44)

    The well-known writer and literary critic Charles Nodier, who was a close friend of the Duc d´Orleans, who had died shortly beforehand, was responsible for the text. The illustration work featured three of the most prominent exponents of artistic Orientalism, the two painters Adrien Dauzats and Gabriele Descamps and draughtsman Auguste Raffet. But the work […]

  • Rebellious Landscapes – William James Linton´s art of graphic Macchia.

    Lintoniana VI What had laid the foundations for Linton’s reputation as a leading proponent of artistic xylography in the 19th century was the extraordinary intensity of his landscape depictions and the graphic freedom that he allowed himself to this end. The apex of his decade-long landscape work was marked in the mid 1860s by the […]

  • The Lake Country-Sketchbook , June 23-July 18th 1863

    In addition to a number of studies on the flora of the Lakes, two sketchbooks of Linton with landscape views have come down to us. One is in the collection of Yale University, another in the Linton-Archive of the Melton Prior Institute. The latter contains watercolours and drawings made during hikes in the North East […]

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