Lyric landscapes, Geishas, and dramatic theater scenes--a bright and ephemeral world is shown on these valuable Japanese wood prints, which came to the collection of the St???dtische Museen Freiburg one hundred years ago. That these rare examples of high quality came to the museum is the merit of Ernst Grosse, ethnologist and director of the St???dtische Kunstsammlungen at that time. Because of his connection with the Japanese art dealer Tadamsa Hayashi, he was able to build an extraordinary collection of Japanese artworks. ...
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Lyric landscapes, Geishas, and dramatic theater scenes--a bright and ephemeral world is shown on these valuable Japanese wood prints, which came to the collection of the St???dtische Museen Freiburg one hundred years ago. That these rare examples of high quality came to the museum is the merit of Ernst Grosse, ethnologist and director of the St???dtische Kunstsammlungen at that time. Because of his connection with the Japanese art dealer Tadamsa Hayashi, he was able to build an extraordinary collection of Japanese artworks. This catalog for the exhibition in the Haus der Graphischen Sammlung Freiburg presents approximately sixty works, some of them prints by Hokusai and Hiroshige, newly interpreted by the East Asian specialist Hans Bjarne Thomsen from Z???rich.
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Add this copy of Japanische Holzschnitte Aus Der Sammlung Ernst Grosse / to cart. $86.28, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Michael Imhof Verlag.