FRANZ MASEREEL

Roger Avermaete

11.75 x 13.25 hardcover book with 318 pages with 518 illustrations, 8 in color. The color reproductions and the frontispiece are tipped-in plates and there are two fold-outs. An absolutely stunning production of an artist whose work looks as fresh as the day it was created. Bibliography and catalogue by Pierre Vorms and Hanns-Conon von der Gabelentz. Translated from the French by Haakon Chevalier.

Contents

• The Artist Speaks of Himself
• Early Years
• Escape
• Images of War
• Geneva
• Woodcuts
• A Spiritual Oasis
• Large Woodcuts
• Stories without Words
• Book Illustrations
• Paris
• Development
• Major Book Illustrations
• Colour Makes its Appearance
• Painting
• Experiments
• Troubled Times
• Russia
• Avignon
• The End of the War
• The Force of Drawing
• Return to Wood-engraving
• New Albums
• Woman
• Technique and Style
• Lithography
• Colour Reappears
• In Nice
• Last Years
• Attitude
• Conclusion
• The Plates
• Bibliography and Catalogue
• Chronology
• List of Illustrations

Frans Masereel (Blankenberge, Belgium 1889 - France 1972) was a Flemish painter and one of the greatest woodcut artist of the twentieth-century. Educated by the Ghent painter Jean Delvin at the Ghent Academy of Fine Art, he then settled in France in 1910, then moved to Switzerland in 1914 then in 1921 to Paris and later Berlin where his closest creative friend was George Grosz. After the Second World War, Masereel lived in Avignon and Nice, France. There is now a Frans Masereel Center (Frans Masereel Centrum for Graphix) in the village of Kasterlee in Belgium. His greatest work is generally said to be the worldless graphic novel Mon Livre d'Heures (Passionate Journey). His work has strongly influenced the work of Clifford Harper.

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