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Max Eisler

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Baby" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #25, Baby; black & white collotype after the 1917 painting in
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Sunflowers” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #3, Sonnenblumen; multi-color collotype after 1908 painting in oil
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Charlotte Pulitzer" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #19, Bildnis einer alten Dame; sepia-toned monochrome
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Hygieia” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #10, Ausschnitt aus dem Bilde “Medizin”; multi-color collotype
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Italian Garden Landscape" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #23, Italienische Landschaft; blue-grey monochrome collotype
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Section of Jurisprudence" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #11, Aus den Bilde “Die Jurisprudenz”; brown-toned monochrome
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Adam & Eve” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #20, Adam und Eva; multi-color collotype after unfinished 1917/18
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Expectation” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #12, Aus dem Stoclet-Fries: Erwartung; multi-color collotype after
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Girlfriends II" collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #1, Die Freundinnen II; multi-color collotype after 1916/17 painting
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “The Bride” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #30, Brautzug; multi-color collotype after unfinished 1917/18
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Portrait of Baroness Wittgenstein" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #4, Bildnis Baronin Wittgenstein; dark grey monochrome
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Portrait of Serena Lederer" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #6, Bildnis Frau Serena Lederer; grey monochrome collotype
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Wally" (Girl in Profile) collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #27, Madchen im Profile; grey-toned monochrome collotype after
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Litzlberg on Lake Attersee" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #8, Litzlberg on Lake Attersee; blue monochrome collotype
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Church on Lake Wolfgang” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #28, Kirche am Wolfgangsee; multi-color collotype after 1915/16
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Portrait of Baroness Bachofen-Echt” collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #22, Bildnis Baronin Bachofen-Echt; multi-color collotype after 1914
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Poppy Field (Poppies in Bloom)" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #5, Mohnwiese; multi-color collotype after 1907 painting in oil on
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Archival Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Lady in a Feathered Hat" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #2, Dame mit Blumenhut (aka The Violet Hat); sepia monochrome
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “House in a Garden” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #9, Haus Im Garten; aka Forester’s House in Weissenbach II; multi
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Malcesine on Lake Garda" collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #7, Malcesine am Gardasee; multi-color collotype after 1913 painting
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Portrait of Friederike Marie Beer" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #24, Bildnis Friederike Maria Beer; multi-color collotype
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “The Embrace (Fulfillment)” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #17, Aus dem Stoclet-Fries: Die Umarmung; multi-color collotype
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Garden Path with Chickens” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #26, Bauerngarten mit Hühnern; multi-color collotype after 1916
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Allegory of Life and Death” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #18, Der Tod und das Leben; multi-color collotype after original
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Portrait of Charlotte Pulitzer, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
, 1915. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing
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1930s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Italian Garden Landscape, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office
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1930s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Houses at Unterach on the Attersee, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
canvas, c. 1916. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State
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1930s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer, Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
canvas, 1916. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State
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1930s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

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Le Martyr de Saint Sebastian (Academic Figurative Oil Painting in Gold Frame)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic style figurative oil painting on canvas 48 x 24 inches unframed 58 x 32 x 3 inches in gold leaf wood frame This vertical, contemporary figurative painting of Le Martyr de S...
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Early 2000s Academic Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Water Snakes II" collotype print
By Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei
Located in Chicago, IL
Water Snakes II, no. 9 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts The last painting Klimt exhibited with the Secession before resigning, Water Snakes II relates to Freund...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

The Education of Achilles by Auguste-Clément Chrétien
By Auguste-Clément Chrétien
Located in New Orleans, LA
The Education of Achilles by the Centaur Chiron Signed and dated "A.C. Chrétien 1861" (lower right) Oil on canvas A masterpiece of French Neoclassical painting, this monumental oil...
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19th Century Academic Nude Paintings

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Oil

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "Danaë" collotype print
By Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei
Located in Chicago, IL
Danaë, no. 2 from the fourth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Danae originates from Greek mythology. She is the daughter of the King of Argos. Because an oracle prophesied to t...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Birch Forest by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk Gustav Klimts landscape nature collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Birch Forest. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna, in an edition of 300. ...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Kiss" collotype print
By Gustav Klimt & K.K. Hof-und Staatsdruckerei
Located in Chicago, IL
The Kiss, no. 1 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Undoubtedly Klimt’s best known and most reproduced images, this printed version of The Kiss is the only one with...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper

Copy of "Portrait of Beatrice dʼEste" by Leonardo da Vinci created 15th Century
Located in New York, NY
A masterful copy by an unknown artist, after the portrait of "Beatrice d'Este" by Leonardo Da Vinci also known as ‘Portrait of a Lady’ or ‘La Dama con la reticella di perle (The Lady...
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18th Century Northern Renaissance Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Reclining nude, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch) collotype lithograph, 1922
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original 1922 collotype lithograph of a reclining nude figure, created from Gustav Kilmt’s handzeichnungen (sketch). Published by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of...
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1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Female semi-nude on bedding, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), 1922
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Female semi-nude on bedding, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 3...
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1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

Untitled (s)
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in New York, NY
1964 Lithograph in black ink 23 1/4 x 16 1/2 in. (59 x 42 cm), unframed From the open edition as issued (Published by the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria) Available for local p...
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20th Century Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

Twilight
By Alessandra Maria
Located in Chicago, IL
Working with a palette of graphite and gold leaf, Alessandra Maria masterfully weaves together elements of the earthly and ethereal. She is part sorceress, part alchemist, summoning ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

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Gold Leaf

Woman in dress, Gustav Klimt Handzeichnungen (Sketch), Thyrsos Verlag, 1922
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype lithograph of Gustav Kilmt’s Woman in dress, published in the 1922 Handzeichnungen portfolio by Thyrsos Verlag, Leipzig and Vienna, in an edition of 375. This artw...
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1920s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Lithograph

R. Layni, Zeichnungen folio, "Woman with Greyhound" Collotype plate III
Located in Chicago, IL
Egon Schiele (1890 – 1918), AUSTRIA “ART CANNOT BE MODERN, ART IS PRIMORDIALLY ETERNAL.” -SCHIELE Defiantly iconoclastic in life and art, Egon Schiele is esteemed for his masterful...
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1910s Vienna Secession Portrait Prints

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Paper

Terra Nullis-21st Century Contemporary Iconic Painting of a Girl in blue dress
By Pam Hawkes
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
This British artist is new to the Netherlands, her work is now a household name in the rest of the world. We understand why. A painting by Pam Hawkes is something remarkable. At th...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

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Copper

Farm Garden Sunflowers by Gustav Klimt, Das Werk lifetime collotype, 1908-1912
By Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Original collotype created from Gustav Klimt’s Farm Garden With Sunflowers, painted in 1913. Published and edited by Verlag H.O. Miethke and printed by k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei,...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway
Located in New York, NY
Yiddish Theatre Cubist Costume Design 1924 Deco Color Field Modernism Broadway. Boris Aronson (1898 – 1980) "Day and Night," 17 ½ x 13 inches. Gouache and watercolor on paper, 1924...
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1920s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

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"Detail of Jurisprudence" Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State Printing Office
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1930s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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"Church at Unterach on Lake Attersee" Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
canvas, 1916. Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State
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1930s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Gastein" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #21, Gastein; grey-green monochrome collotype after the 1917
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Charlotte Pulitzer" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #19, Bildnis einer alten Dame; sepia-toned monochrome
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Sunflowers” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #3, Sonnenblumen; multi-color collotype after 1908 painting in oil
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Sunflowers” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #3, Sonnenblumen; multi-color collotype after 1908 painting in oil
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Italian Garden Landscape" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #23, Italienische Landschaft; blue-grey monochrome collotype
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Section of Jurisprudence" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #11, Aus den Bilde “Die Jurisprudenz”; brown-toned monochrome
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Girlfriends II" collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #1, Die Freundinnen II; multi-color collotype after 1916/17 painting
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Portrait of Baroness Wittgenstein" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #4, Bildnis Baronin Wittgenstein; dark grey monochrome
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Church on Lake Wolfgang” collotype print
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #28, Kirche am Wolfgangsee; multi-color collotype after 1915/16
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Poppy Field (Poppies in Bloom)" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #5, Mohnwiese; multi-color collotype after 1907 painting in oil on
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio “Portrait of Baroness Bachofen-Echt” collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #22, Bildnis Baronin Bachofen-Echt; multi-color collotype after 1914
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Houses in Unterach on Lake Attersee" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #29, Am Attersee; brown-toned monochrome collotype after the
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Houses in Unterach on Lake Attersee" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #29, Am Attersee; brown-toned monochrome collotype after the
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Archival Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Houses in Unterach on Lake Attersee" collotype
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plate #29, Am Attersee; brown-toned monochrome collotype after the
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1930s Vienna Secession Landscape Prints

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Archival Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Studies for the Frieze at Palais" 4 collotypes
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plates #13-16, black & white collotypes after the 1911 cartoon
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Archival Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Studies for the Frieze at Palais" 4 collotypes
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler Plates #13-16, black & white collotypes after the 1911 cartoon
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

"Portrait of Baroness Wittgenstein" Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
canvas, 1905). Published by Max Eisler and printed by Österreichischer Staatsdruckerei (Austrian State
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1930s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

"Portrait of Baroness Bachofen-Echt" Gustav Klimt An Aftermath collotype, 1931
By (after) Gustav Klimt
Located in Chicago, IL
Portrait of Baroness Bachofen-Echt), oil on canvas, c. 1914. Published by Max Eisler and printed by
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1930s Vienna Secession Prints and Multiples

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Paper

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Max Eisler For Sale on 1stDibs

You are likely to find exactly the max eisler you’re looking for on 1stDibs, as there is a broad range for sale. When looking for the right max eisler for your space, you can search on 1stDibs by color — popular works were created in bold and neutral palettes with elements of beige and white. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paper. If space is limited, you can find a small max eisler measuring 18 high and 18 wide, while our inventory also includes works up to 19 across to better suit those in the market for a large max eisler.

How Much is a Max Eisler?

The price for a max eisler in our collection starts at $250 and tops out at $14,400 with the average selling for $6,500.

A Close Look at Expressionist Art

While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared. 

Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.

Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.

Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.

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Finding the Right Prints and Multiples for You

Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.

Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.

Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.

Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.

Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.

“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.

Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.

For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)

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