Cissarz, J. V. - Original Woodcut

Cissarz, Johann Vincenz (1873-1942)

Original Woodcut, signed

Size: image 135 x 175 mm; frame 285 x 340 mm

Condition: the image solids look good, paper slightly rippled, a small tear is visible at the lower right corner. Signed in pencil by Cissarz on the lower right corner, with the words "Orig. holzschnitt" at lower left. The lower portion of the green mountboard is slightly discoloured due to damp. The bottom edge of the frame is scuffed along half its surface, and the cardboard backing is showing the results of dampstaining, and is coming loose.

Title:  "Der Sendling" (the Apostle/Missionary).

Date: circa 1925

German painter, illustrator, designer, teacher and architect. He studied painting at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Dresden, from 1891 to 1896. After producing monumental altarpieces and murals, he took up book illustration and poster design. By 1899, he was actively involved in the Dresden craft workshops, designing furniture and wallpaper. He was also recognized widely for the quality of his posters and typography. He successfully exhibited in art shows around the turn of the century. In 1903, he moved from Dresden to the artists' colony at Matildenhühe, near Darmstadt, designing furniture for the Blaues Haus. His typographic work on the catalogs for the 1904-1905 exhibitions of the Darmstadt Artist Coloby and his posters and advertisements for Bad Nauheim in 1904 were considered to be notable contributions to the "modern advertising idiom." In 1906, Cissarz became head of book design at the teaching and experimental workshop of the Verein Würtembergischer Kunstfreunde in Stuttgart, later becoming a professor.

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