April 17, 2024
Unknown Unidentified artist : Expressionist German Etching European art sailor
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Unknown / Unidentified European ArtistGerman artist?1920?Sailor on boat smoking pipeOriginal Hand- NumberedTechnique: Etching on PaperSize : 38 x 31 cm / 14.82" x 12.09" inchFrame : UnframedCondition : Very goodAbout the painting: Sailor On a boat smoking pipeAbout the technique: E tching by goldsmiths and other metal-workers in order to decorate metal items such as guns, armour, cups and plates has been known in Europe since the Middle Ages at least, and may go back to antiquity. The elaborate decoration of armour, in Germany anyway, was an art probably imported from Italy around the end of the 15th century--little earlier than the birth of etching as a printmaking technique.Selection of early etched printing plates from the British MuseumThe process as applied to printmaking is believed to have been invented by Daniel Hopfer (circa 1470-1536) of Augsburg, Germany. Hopfer was a craftsman who decorated armour in this way, and applied the method to printmaking, using iron plates (many of which still exist). Apart from his prints, there are two proven examples of his work on armour: a shield from 1536 now in the Real Armeria of Madrid and a sword in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum of Nuremberg. An Augsburg horse armour in the German Historical Museum, Berlin, dating to between 1512 and 1515, is decorated with motifs from Hopfer's etchings
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