Beschreibung:

54 : 38 cm. Lithograph by F. Patek. Plate 145: Kürbis, Gurke.

Bemerkung:

The colourful plate shows the leaves of a pumpkin and cucumber. A stanning image. - The very rare portfolio showing the most beautiful and richest forms of plants in nature and styl for the use in all fields of art and aplied art. Each plate of this work is of outstanding artistic design and beauty in Art Nouveau. Anton Seder (1850 - 1916) was a professor and painter, and his work had a great influence on the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements. The plates are made in different techniques like lithograph, etching, woodcut, photolithography, collotype, chromolithography etc. some plates printed with gold. The quality of most of the plates is unreached. Many of the plates were made by Anton Seder himself, but alos other artist were involved, like H. Charlemont, H. Darnant, J. Berger, A. Moor, F. Unger etc. - Thieme-Becker XXX, 422.