Gentlemen,

I thought perhaps some old hunting artwork might be in order? I don't think we've seen too many threads on paintings or drawings or others along these lines? Another area that I enjoy is collecting images that pertain to the hunting and forestry fields, especially the animals.

I know that some of you most likely have hunting weapon catalogs in your collections, and some of those might be beautifully illustrated with line-drawings of animals? It might be fun to see what's noteworthy along these lines and share some of your favorites.

I'll start off with a few that I recently got from a gent in Belgium that owns a nice old bookshop. The first four are Dutch hunting-theme illustrations and could easily be mistaken for German works. The second pair of elongated paintings are German, and all of them originate from right around the turn of the century.

Maybe some of you fellas might be able to scan and post a couple of your favorites, too?
I hope you'll enjoy these ...

Best regards!

Bill

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These are outstanding Bill, thanks for posting! I'm partial to the bold graphic presentation of the unique Hubertus style Hirsch Schädel. I have quiet a few pre-WW2 graphics of this nature in my archives, and I'll try to dig them up at some point soon.

The first set of Jugendstil style images look to be 3 color prints, but the naturalistic scenes appear to be hand tinted? Any ideas? These subtle distinctions are often difficult to ascertain in a jpeg.

I'm reminded that I recently came across some original Theo Kärner hunting drawings on the german ebay. I should have thought to send you the link but my mind was elsewhere. I don't think the prices were unreasonable. If I find any more I'll certainly let you know.

Thank you again for posting these fantastic images.

B.A. Vierling

Bill,
Thanks for showing these. Thats really special and all are very very nice! I was sure I had a few copies of original art somewhere myself and a original Karner painting that you have probably seen before. I will hunt some more for them.

Gentlemen,

I'll try to answer the questions first ...

A - the first four illustrations were prepared as they appear, in the first photo you can see the addition of black as a color to enhance the overall contrast and shadow-areas - boots, jacket, cap, cuffs, etc. If you look carefully, the second, third and fourth photos
lack any true black tones and the darkest shadow areas are composed of other colors that were used by the artist. All of the prints were reproduced using the "four-color process," meaning the original was seperated into precise amounts of, cyan, magenta, yellow and black, to faithfully duplicate the artist's color palette. The two paintings on the bottom were also printed usuing a four-color screening process, but it's easier to spot the use of black in this case. This craftsman used lots of black ink to highlight the darkest areas and silhouette certain parts of his work.

Hand-painted engravings are a horse of a different color altogether and exhibit the most vibrant of colors. I don't know if we'd be able to spot a hand-colored piece in this format, but I'll try to post at least one to see if we can?

In the meantime, here's another stylized Hubertus depiction. Looking forward to any and all additional goodies ...

Bill

Bill,
I have many black and white litho's from 1870's, but don't think I have any of color, except for ship battle scenes and none as nice as the ones you have shown. Thanks.

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Bill,
Hope you enjoyed the animals. Here's a fairly large painting with the original frame that I've had for many many years. It's not a high quality painting but not a bad painting either. I guess it's grown on me over the years because the more I look at it the more I like it. If you look close you'll see that the birds are hand painted on real leaves. Thanks.

Mikee,

Now that's an unusual painting, it's great! Never seen one like it before, wherever
did you find that one? ha, I'm tickled for you!

I know I'll be coming back to look at this piece a few more times ...

The first set of illustrations look like they depict life in the hunting-preserve or something along those lines? On the third one down the Hirsch looks to be falling or something? Is there a caption for it?

It's hard for me to tell but this series looks like it might have originally been pencil on paper? Very nice!

Here's an example of a hand-colored engraving that goes back to the 1850's. I hope you'll be able to see the rich color-saturation ...
At times colors like this are hard to reproduce with conventional four-color printing methods, touchy at best.

Gotta love those terns Mikee, thanks for the good additions!

W~

Some very nice examples here, here's my only example, there are many of these available on german Ebay if anybody fancies are a few examples.

Gary

Bill,
Glad you like the Tern painting! I had never seen one like it either, so I grabbed it up at a flea market many years ago. I've never researched the artist so I'm not sure when it was painted, I guess maybe early 1900's? The caption under the falling deer reads "Der sturz über die felswand", Carl Müller. (The fall over the cliff). I think they were pencil but I’m not absolutely sure.
The color, detail and crap load of patience on that fish is just amazing! I’m marveled by this type of talent. Thanks for showing it Bill!

Gary,
That's a very nice example. I prefer the color prints but they cost a little more.

Here's a few more litho's. And I can't leave without posting "Kärner's Parforcejagd" which is fairly large as well. It was time to kick the dust off it anyway. Thanks.

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Some excellent images on display! I'm a great fan of 19th century lithographs. The first scene with the fox and the hair is really nice.

Thank you for the clarification on color printing methods Bill. It's been a while since I studied up on the screening procedure, and I had heard from some sources that early 20th century processes sometimes included hand mixing pigments to tailor individual images? Just curious why printing quality, especially in books plate illustration, degraded so significantly after the 1940s.

I thought I had some early prints of the hubertus icon myself, but I can't seem to locate them. Will keep searching. The very jugendstil stylized version Bill posted is great.

I do have a period Print titled 'Rückkehr von der Jagd'. Image to follow. This painting was exhibited in 1942 at the Prussian Academy in Berlin.

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Because of the small size, here is a Close-up.

Albrecht,
That's really something!I love art! Thanks for posting it."Kärner's Parforcejagd"

Mikee and Albrecht, beautiful additions to the thread, here's a few more, the first is from the ADJV.A large almost poster size print with just a splash of colour.

This one from the Deutsche Jägerschaft, this one also has some colour, I think it's been hand finished as others of these Jägerbrief I have seen have no colour.