CROISSANT, DORIS; WAKABAYASHI, MISAKO
Japanese Paintings in the Linden-Museum Stuttgart: A Selection from the Baelz Collection (2 Volumes in Slipcase)
Linden Museum Stuttgart, Germany. 1991. (ISBN: 3000036024). Hardcover. Book, English text.; Hardcover (cloth in slipcase). 24 x 32.5 x 10 cm.; 5.8 Kg.; 366 pages (text volume) plus 495 pages (plate volume).; 2 VOLUMES IN SLIPCASE, ONE WITH TEXT AND THE OTHER WITH PLATES.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior of the slipcase, which show wear signs throughout, namely some blue marks on the exterior of the slipcase. Interior of both volumes in very good condition.; "The inventory, compiled in 1893 or slightly later, of the paintings collected by Erwin Baelz contains 3,131 items, and includes 463 mounted hanging scrolls and 2,668 unmounted hanging scrolls, handscrolls, drawing books for instructions and single-sheet drawings. This huge amount of visual material has survived almost completely, despite two world wars. After an appraisal, roughly half of the items were further researched and examined to establish their authenticity. For the catalogue, a further selection was made according to quality and historical interest. We have tried to include all authentic scrolls and drawings which are either signed or have inscriptions identifying them as copies after well-known masters. Among anonymous works, nearly all the Buddhist paintings and handscrolls have been included. Unsigned anonymous drawings ascribed to different schools of painting have been selected in view or their quality and iconographic significance, Works which could be clearly identified as fakes have only been included when they may be helpful for the reconstruction of the lost ouevre of a master artist. A few items have been included from two bequests to the Linden-Museum, those of Anna and Christian Trumpf and of professor Jakob Fisher, where they complement works from the Baelz collection. The catalogue contains 875 entries of some 1,200 single items, which occasionally form part of a series, of diptychs, triptychs or of several handscrolls or picture albuns. The main significance of this collection of paintins is its sheer quantity, which allows a comprehensive overview of the various stylistic developments and schools of Japanese painting during the middle and late Edo period (1603-1868) and early Meiji era (1868 to 1912). An important point of reference is the fact that all objects must date from before 1893, the year they entered the collection of the former Koniglich Wurt-tembergisches Landes-Gewerbemuseum in Stuttgart. Of particular interest is the large number of unmounted drawings, sketches and copies (mekuri), which provide valuable documentary material on the organization of painting workshops, the training of pupils and the production methods of painting masters during the late Edo period, subjects which have been very little researched." excerpt from the introduction by Doris Croissant. Good/No Jacket.

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