In Spring

1899, published 1901

Otto Felsing

(German)

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Culture

Germany

Medium

Portfolio of 10 etchings

Credit Line

Prints & Drawings Sundry Art Purchase 2024.11

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Not on view

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Heinrich Vogeler was active within an influential avant-garde artists’ colony in Worpswede, located in northeastern Germany, where he built a studio home that he conceived of as a total work of art, featured throughout these prints.

Description

Heinrich Vogeler was instrumental in the development of Jugendstil, or art nouveau, in Germany. This international movement advocated for an integration of the arts and their application to the visual culture of the everyday—including design, household goods, and illustrated books. In Spring features landscapes that loosely evoke the times of day, beginning with an image of the artist encountering a lark in the morning and concluding with the night sky over his home. Vogeler collaborated with the vanguard journal Die Insel and controlled every aspect of the portfolio’s production, including its cover design, font, layout, paper, ink tone, and binding.

A vertical portfolio has a tan cover detailed with a dense, muted green pattern of floral line drawings and jagged leaves. A cream-colored spine runs down the left edge. In the upper right, a rectangular cream label features black text surrounding a circular emblem of a sailing ship. The paper edges appear slightly worn and aged, showing white underlayers at the corners.

In Spring

1899, published 1901

Heinrich Vogeler, Der Insel, Otto Felsing

(German, 1872–1942), (German)

Germany

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