In the Game of Waves - Original Woodcut by J.J. Weber - 1898
By Arnold Bocklin (After)
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 35.4 x 45.7 cm
Original title: Im Spiel der Wellen
In the Game of the Waves is a black and white xylograph on Japon applied on ivory-colored paper, after Arnold Böcklin, realized by the German artist Johann Jacob Weber (Basel 1803, Leipzig 1880).
A superb plate with lifetime impression, from the collection "Sechzehn Holzscnitte nach Gemälden Arnold Böcklin (Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst, Neue Folge Heft V), leipzig, verlagsbuchhandlung von J. J. Weber", printed in 1898 by J.J. Weber.
All the plates of this print suite are woodcuts on the head wood and taken from Böcklin's most famous paintings. Johann Jacob Weber was the talented executor and creator of the Meisterwerke der Holzschneidekunst series which also includes a famous folder of his woodcuts taken from the artworks by Sascha...
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1890s Symbolist Arnold Bocklin (After) Art