Produkcja popularnych obrazów graficznych w latach 1870–1940
The Manufacture of Popular Graphic Images in Years 1870–1940

Technology, Embellishment and Framing

Summary/Abstract: The main goal of the article is to draw attention to the underestimated phenomenon of printed paintings. Due to the extensiveness of the matter, the considerations are limited to the study of the production technology (primarily lithography, secondarily photolithography and offset printing), as well as variations of embellishments and framing. The study of the subject was based on field and museum researches, while bibliographic research based primarily on texts of German researchers. This results from the fact, that at the time German producers of graphic images were potentates on the European market. What is more, manufacture and distribution of painting reproductions spread so widely, that without exaggeration, we can use the expressions like “the manufacture” or “the manufactured painting”. The history of the most popular series of paintings were connected with the technological progress. Thanks to the development of printing-techniques the images could be produced in wholesale-quantities. Quickly and naturally the manufactured painting became a representative art of peasantry and blue-collar workers.

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