Fridolin Leiber born 1843 in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He died in 1912.
He specialized in lithographs which was an early form of color printing with limitations regarding detail and colors.
There was a large market for religious and moral images with book-marker sized and post-card sized images being big sellers.
Snobs would likely turn up their noses at his work, scoffing that they were "commercial illustrations, not art", but in modern language, Leiber' work was guided by "crowd-sourced knowledge" and was very well executed within the limitations of the technology.
Our attempt to auction a nice little piece of Victorian furniture has succeeded. But not our second attempt to sell a fine 19th century Continental violin. Maybe it's too pricey to buy for a child but not good enough for a professional musician: yet one played it during the 1930s. Patience required, I suppose.
ReplyDeleteIn our age of effectively on-demand art, we forget the limits of technologies of the time.
ReplyDeleteThanks, as always, for continuing the tradition ERJ.