1937 Die Deutsche Hinterglasmalerei by Herbert Wolfgang Keiser, Illustrated

Description: Die Deutsche Hinterglasmalerei by Herbert Wolfgang Keiser, F. Bruckman, Munich, 1937, 70pp, 96pp, hardcover, Fair condition. Paper-covered boards with a cloth spine. Wear and staining to boards. Title in gilt on front board and spine. Library catalog info in black ink on spine. Tips are bumped with exposed boards. Bookplate for The Free Library of Philadelphia on front pastedown. Full color frontispiece opposite title page. Dot matrix stamp for The Free Library of Philadelphia on title page. Toning and age-staining throughout textblock. 89/90 in plates section is detached from binding. 96 pages of illustrated plates at rear of textblock. Please see photos. Reverse glass painting is an art form consisting of applying paint to a piece of glass and then viewing the image by turning the glass over and looking through the glass at the image. It was widely used for sacral paintings since the Middle Ages, and the most famous was the art of icons in the Byzantine Empire. FORN-TUB-0025-BB-0424-JC531

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