The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
A dead German soldier lies in a trench after a mine explosion. This print is plate 14 from the first portfolio of 18 woodcuts, 'La guerre de 1914', published by Sagot, Paris. From the second (published) state of two; no. 18 from an edition of 35. Lepere was a master of etching and wood-engraving. He campaigned for the use of original wood-engravings as illustrations rather than the photomechanical processes which were turning artists into slaves. He showed the possibilities of wood-engraving in the books he illustrated. His prints were admired for their simplification, striking contrasts and elimination of tones. Lepere's last years were disrupted by the war, Given the national emergency he allowed his designs to be reproduced photomechanically.
A concentration of troops moving towards a battlefield. This woodcut is plate 6 from the first portfolio of 18 woodcuts, 'La guerre de 1914', published by Sagot, Paris, 1915. Second (published) state
An explosion on a battlefield with a trench in the foreground. Vallotton himself published and sold the portfolio of six woodcuts entitled 'C'est la guerre (This is war)'. This print is plate 1 from t
Print made by Pierre Langlumé c.1817-1822 after the original artwork by Jacques Arago. Arago was French writer, artist and explorer. He joined Louis de Freycinet on his scientific world voyage aboard
The published print portfolio, 'Europa' was commissioned in 1922 by the publishing house, Georg Muller Verlad, and was one of the artist's first commissions for an illustrated book. Alongside the scha
Plate 17 from the portfolio of 19 drypoints and etchings, 'Gesichter [Faces]', published by Marees Gesellschaft, R. Piper & Co, Munich, 1919. The image is a mocking view of a celebration among old co
This is plate 11 from portfolio II in the series 'Der Krieg (The War)' published by Karl Nierendorf in 1924 and printed by Otto Felsing. The series consists of fifty images assembled in five consecuti