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- Title
A MILESTONE COLLABORATION: THE ROTOGRAVURE OF HERMANN WIECHMANN AND THE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THEODOR AND OSKAR HOFMEISTER.
- Abstract
A German writer in a 1904 issue of the American fine arts journal Camera Work stated that the brothers Theodor (1865-1943) and Oskar (1869-1 937) Hofmeister “produce wonderfully perfect landscapes whose remarkable range of conception and of subject few living painters can surpass.†In this country, the Hofmeisters were best known in the small pictorialist community for their lush, dark, hand-worked gum bichromate prints seen in photographic salons at the turn of the century. Here we learn of another aspect of the brothers’ work. Di Karl Steinorth, historian and collector of fine photographically illustrated books, links the Hofmeisters with the evolution of mechanical printing technology. Rotogravure allowed their evocative landscape photography to be printed alongside period German poetry and available to a wide public.
- Subjects
ROTOGRAVURE; WIECHMANN, Hermann; HOFMEISTER, Oskar; HOFMEISTER, Theodor; HISTORY of printing; HISTORY of photography
- Publication
Image, 1996, Vol 39, Issue 1/2, p32
- ISSN
0536-5465
- Publication type
Article