Color Source Book of Authentic Art Nouveau Designs: 146 Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) - Softcover

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Max Benirschke was a graphic artist working in "Jugendstil" -- the Austrian-German equivalent of the Art Nouveau movement. This book is a republication of "Buchschmuck und Flachenmuster von Max Benirschke" ("Book Decoration and Flat Design by Max Benirschke") and was originally published by Verlag Martin Gerlach, Vienna and Leipzig (ca. 1902). It contains 146 of his designs on 32 pages and includes everything from small ornaments to frames, borders, decorative initials, magazine frontpieces and book covers done in an assortment of realistic and stylized drawings of flowers, vegetables, birds and people (mostly gargoyles and beautiful women) as well as general geometric shapes. There are even some examples of "tessellation" -- the geometric arrangement of repeating patterns made famous by M.C. Escher. This is a excellent visual sourcebook for artists and craftspeople plus there is also a brief biography at the end of the book that describes the types of work Benirschke did and those artists and styles that influenced him. The designs would adapt well to graphic arts use (magazine and book covers, newsletters, menus, calling cards, wrapping paper, stationery, rubber stamps, greeting cards and posters) as well as to fabric arts (fabric design, batik and embroidery) and fine arts (painting and woodblock designs). All of the pictures are done in two colors on white in one of four color combinations: burgundy/dark orange; hunter green/light orange; hunter green/purple; and brown/dark olive-mustard green.

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