Collecting Prints
Prints were collected from
the first days of printmaking. With printmaking, it was possible
for the first time to reproduce and transmit images in multiple
form. First huge collections of engravings were built by the courts
of the aristocrats, in the beginning mainly for the purpose of communicating
cultural values like religion and history. Also images from science
were published in prints - for example discoveries of explorers.
Prints were collected by private enthusiasts and from artists, who
this way could buy works of their colleagues. Many paintings became
famous after being published as engravings in a time where travelling
was not easy.
There are different ways of collecting: from collecting from personal
preference to collecting systematically for certain artists or periods
accompanied by filing the prints.
Many art collectors started their passion by collecting the comparatively
affordable prints. Printmaking makes it still possible for every
art lover to build a collection and enjoy it in a privat surrounding.
To demonstrate the variety of a print collection we present here
an example.
Eva Pietzcker: Prints from my Collection
This lithograph was created by the artist Winfried
Tonner from Regensburg. I came to know him in the winter of 2000,
when both of us were working in the printmaking studio of the Oberpfälzer
Künstlerhaus in Schwandorf, he doing a lithograph, me etching
an intaglio. It was a nice experience for me to work side by side
with such an aged colleague.
In autumn 2001, he prepared the two stones of this lithograph for
an edition ordered by the Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus, but
could not join the printing as he died in February 2002.
This linocut of the Swiss artist Yves Voriol
with two folds is three-dimensional.
I bought this Japanese woodblock print in Kyoto,
but unfortunately don't know the artists name.
A star of my collection is this print from
Hokusai, one half of a double page from his 7. Manga.
I bought this print during my stay as artist-in-residence
of the Japanese Nagasawa AIR program. It was created by the artist
Tom Thijsse, who had participated in this program some years ago.
I found this print very interesting and even did a kind of variation.
This woodblock "hai domo" was done by
Sawako Kawaminami from Osaka, a colleague of mine in Japan. It is
a portray of the busdriver Mr. Nagao, who often brought us seven
artists to our studio and answered seven "thank you" with
seven "hai domo" (yes, welcome).
This is a screenprint of the artist Michael Reed
from New Zealand with the title "Pepeha", referring to
a Maori myth.
The plate of this woodblock print was cut by my
papermaking teacher Mr. Okuda from Awaji/Japan. He offered me the
plates of several woodblocks for printing them - this is one.
A woodblock print of the Korean artist Mia O with
a motif of rice grains
A woodblock print of the artist Nel Pak from Utrecht.
A small woodblock print of the Polish artist Dariusz
Kaca
A woodblock print created by my partner Miriam Zegrer
This intaglio was done by the Danish artist Gunnar
Nielsen: a portrait of Miriam und me.
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